The Rough Guide to Southwest USA 3 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) [Paperback]

Rough Guides (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 3, 2003

This title provides a complete guide to the towns, deserts and canyons of the southwestern corner of North America. It contains a full-colour introductory section on the region's highlights, including the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas. Throughout the guide the author provides accounts of the ten national parks and countless wilderness areas in the region. There are also critical reviews of a range of motels and restaurants, campgrounds and diners.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"We carried several paperback guides, but quickly discarded the others in favor of this excellent book... wherever I travel next, a Rough Guide will be with me, you can be sure." Richard Simpson, West Virginia on amazon.com

About the Author

Greg Ward has written for Rough Guides since 1985. His other Rough Guides include Las Vegas, the USA, Hawaii, Honolulu, Maui and the Big Island.

Product Details

• Paperback: 592 pages
• Publisher: Rough Guides; 3rd edition (November 3, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1843530805
• ISBN-13: 978-1843530800
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 4.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,694,087 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite Southwest guidebook, June 22, 2005

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Jessica Lux (Rosamond, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Rough Guide to Southwest USA 3 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)

This is the mother of all Southwest guidebooks, and as one reviewer stated, it is most useful because it covers multiple states (New Mexico, Arizona, Southern Utah, and Southern Nevada).

The maps inside are second-to-none. I always trust these maps, especially when I need to get off the major highways to a less-traveled road.

This book has medium-to-small type and thin pages, so they pack a lot of information into a small space. This is great for the traveler who doesn't want to lug around a huge and heavy book.

Every town has a good description, history, and information, followed by a list of practicalities like where to eat, where to stay, where to get more information. The Indian reservations are covered in great detail, and this was essential for my trip.

Love this book and I highly recommend it to anyone driving through the Southwest.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Overall Guidebook to the Southwest, October 29, 2004

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Matt Ebiner (Covina, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Rough Guide to Southwest USA 3 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)

I travel in the Southwest frequently and have a diverse collection of guidebooks to the region. Rough Guide is my favorite, with the intelligently written descriptions and opinions. The other guidebooks are drier or shallower in comparison (Moon, Lonely Planet, Let's Go, DK, and Frommer's).

5.0 out of 5 stars great travel guide, May 16, 2005

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M. Bouchard (Trumansburg, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Rough Guide to Southwest USA 3 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)

We recently travelled in the Grand Canyon-Southern Utah area, and found this an invaluable resource. None of the reviews was off-base... although some of the prices are outdated at this point, it's to be expected. One thing that's nice about this guide is that it's pretty durable, so after several weeks of use in the planning of the trip, 10 days of being tossed about in backpack, car and luggage, and being used as a reference in my post-trip write-up of our travels, it still looks fairly new. I could probably sell it used, but I think I'll keep it for when I head back that way in a few years.