Customer Reviews

National Geographic Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks Road Guide: The Essential Guide for Motorists (National Geographic Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks Road Guide)

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Concise well written guide to the roads in and around Yellowstone and Grand Teton Parks. It's a great size for a pocketbook, backpack or dash. It's full of history, wildlife info, but the detailed small maps are the best feature. Instead of working with a folding, flat map of the entire area, which is what is provided by the parks, you can just flip to the area you are interested in and get a lot of detailed info in a much more user friendly format. Great deal for the price.

This road guide put the park into perspective as to where and how far the best trails and geysers were located. We used this little book in route more than any other book we purchased to prepare for our Yellowstone trip.
For the first timer at these parks, this book is extremely useful!

Our family just returned from a trip to Yellowstone and Grand Teton parks. This guide is absolutely invaluable; we used it every day. It's easy to read and tells every point of interest along the road, including where the next restroom, picnic area, or scenic pullout is. Since each page covers no more than 10 miles of road, it's extremely detailed. I highly recommend it. I just noticed that National Geographic does a similar road guide for Yosemite, and I will be buying that one, too.

We used this book on a family vacation in 2010. As my husband drove through Yellowstone and the Tetons, I read the book's brief background notes about many spots. Although the parks' official (and free) map is sufficient to get around the parks, the added details of this road guide were very helpful for us to plan our trip and not get lost. We liked the animal spotting notations as well.

Excellent road guide for these two parks. The size makes it easy to keep handy, maps are detailed enough to keep you going in the right direction at all times!

Went to Yellowstone in June 2010, and took this book and several others along. We never used the other books once we were there. Only this one. It is an EXCELLENT guidebook that allows you to follow along as you drive through the park. You will know where you are and what points of interest there are each mile. It enabled us to see things that we would have never realized were there to see.

The layout of the book, with a map on the left and descriptors on the right makes for a very fast reference. However, it is a road map with no description or judgment on the quality of the various sites. Good for those who only step out of their vehicles to snap quick pictures and then zoom off to the next stop on the list.

This was very useful as an accompaniment to other guide books, for keeping abbreviated notes next to the detailed maps.

This was not user friendly. The maps are broken down into smaller sections on each page and there is no rhyme or reason about the order of the maps. Couldn't get the "big picture" with these maps.