Customer Reviews

Outdoor Family Guide to Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks (Outdoor Family Guides)

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I purchased this book as well as Top Trails' "Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park" by Andrew Dean Nystrom, and was disappointed with "Family Guide" as compared with "Top Trails". As I am using these books to plan a family vacation, I am especially interested in finding child-friendly hikes. The "Top Trails" book provides a good summary of the hikes (mileage, difficulty, terrain, and activities) at the beginning of the book, an overview missing from "Family Guide".

We just got back from our trip to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. This and Frommer's Guide to Yellowstone and Grand Tetons were the books we took with us.

We found this book to be right on target with each of the hikes we took. We appricated the overviews and descriptions of each of the hikes.

Traveling with small children can be a challenge, but this book did a good job at helping us choose which hikes would be enjoyed by all of us. I like how they had a chart of which hikes are good for animal sightings, which for historical value and which for exceptional beauty.

I was a bit disappointed that it didn't cover more aspects of each of the parks and things to do. Though it mentioned such things as horseback riding or rafting, it didn't offer any insight into what would be seen on a rafting trip or riding in the grand canyon of Yellowstone vs. in Roosevelt Lodge (for example). It stuck basically to the hiking trails, which was fine, but the title of the book would be more accurately called, "Hiking With The Family in Yellowstone and Grand Tetons".

I would recommend this book for anyone looking for a good over-all hiking reference for the parks (you certainly don't need kids to appriciate it). It was easy to read, easily formated and easy to throw in a backpack.

I was using an "Outdoor Family Guide to Yellowstone National Park" and "Top Trails" and I found Outdoor Family Guide to be much more up to date. Several of the trail guides in "Top Trails" were outdated when I actually arrived at the park. After several days in and around the park, my family and I left "Top Trails" in the car and only used the "Outdoor Family Guide." The family guide also proved more inclusive for other outdoor activities besides just hiking. It's a great all around book!

We used this book on a family vacation to the Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. The books have excellent advice for parents of young children. The suggested hikes come with reasonably accurate information to help in choosing easy, moderate or difficult hikes. For a couple of the hikes, I found it a little hard to find the starting points. However, overall, this was an invaluable aide in making the most of our visit to Yellowstone, which can be somewhat overwhelming due to its sheer size.

This book is a guide to trails in Yellowstone and Grand Teton. Walking is the best way to see everything, and the table in the front of the book was great. We used the table as a "filter," to select easy trails. We read each description and selected favorites. We saw many additional things without exhausting our energy. Although the book is good, I do not recommend it as your primary guidebook. We also purchased Frommer's Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks, which is a better choice if you buy only one book. The Outdoor Family Guide is a good supplement.

I ordered this book for our family trip to Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks. Lots of useful information. This book helped us plan which sites to see and when. I highly recomend this book for anyone traveling to Yellowstone.