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Uncle Sam's Guide to the Great Outdoors [Paperback]

Raphael Sagalyn (Author)
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March 3, 1998
WELCOME TO YOUR GREAT OUTDOORS

Meet your new travel expert, Uncle Sam, who will introduce you to all of America's Great Outdoors!  

More than 640 million acres of America are protected and managed for recreational use.
These public lands include far more than the fifty-four famous national parks, such as Yosemite, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon.   They encompass more than one thousand sites, ranging from national forests, scenic rivers, and seashores to battlefields, cultural meccas, and treasure troves of history.  

Bring America's outdoors experts to you!

We called upon hundreds of rangers, naturalists, historians, and information officers to find the inside information--tips on where to go, what's special, and what to see--about both well-known and little-known recreational sites, some of which are closer to where you live than you ever imagined.   We give you their mailing addresses, phone numbers, and website addresses, so you can be in touch with them.   You'll be surprised to learn that these experts are all too happy to share their information with you.  

Prepare you for your next outdoor adventure. . . and save you money!

The custodians of Uncle Sam's Great Outdoors--in particular, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Forest Service--have prepared brochures, maps, guidebooks, checklists, and posters for all recreational activities, including camping, boating, hunting, fishing, and scenic driving. We show you how to get this invaluable material--often for free or at very low cost.

GET free maps, travel guides, and more!

FIND nearby wonders and overlooked gems!

The Everglades,  Golden Gate Park,  Lewis and Clark Trail,  Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River,  Mount Rushmore,  Gettysburg Battlefield,  BLUE RIDGE Parkway,  Apostle Islands, National Lakeshore,  Assateague Island, Harpers Ferry,  Trail of Tears,  Fort Sumter, Statue of Liberty,  Big Cypress National Preserve,  The White House,  Wright Brothers Memorial,  Frederick Douglass Memorial Home,  Great Smoky Mountains,  Appomattox Courthouse,  Acadia National Park,  Gila Cliff Dwellings, Little Bighorn Battlefield,  Point Reyes,  Bryce Canyon,  Tuskegee Institute,  Craters of the Moon, National Monument,  The Grand Tetons,  Valley Forge,  Mark Twain National Forest,  Carlsbad Caverns, Mount Rainier,  Mammoth Cave,  Fort  Clatsop,  Black Kettle National Grassland, Nez Perce National Historical Park,  Dinosaur National Monument, Appalachian Trail,  Muir Woods,  Abraham Lincoln Birthplace,  Fire Island,  Sleeping Bear Dunes,  Hell's Canyon,  Cape Cod,  Effigy Mounds.

Enjoy your Great Outdoors--and preserve it for generations to come.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

This new guidebook by Sagalyn (The Great American Web Book: A Citizen's Guide to the Treasures of the US Government on the World Wide Web, LJ 10/1/96) reminds travelers that the lands managed by the National Park Service (NPS) extend far beyond the boundaries of the well-known national parks. This book offers overviews of 376 sites administered by the NPS, including national parks, lakeshores, battlefields, military parks, memorials, parkways, trails, and other public lands. Each entry provides a mailing address, telephone number, and World Wide Web address to contact for additional information, as well as a brief description of the site. Although the guide is complete insofar as federal lands are concerned, its scope is too narrow for travelers interested in seeing all the sights at a given destination, not simply those under the aegis of the U.S. government. Despite this caveat, the book would serve as a useful companion to a more comprehensive guidebook. Recommended for large travel collections.?Pamela W. Bellows, Northwestern Connecticut Community Technical Coll. Lib., Winstead
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Inside Flap

WELCOME TO YOUR GREAT OUTDOORS

Meet your new travel expert, Uncle Sam, who will introduce you to all of America's Great Outdoors!  

More than 640 million acres of America are protected and managed for recreational use.
These public lands include far more than the fifty-four famous national parks, such as Yosemite, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon.   They encompass more than one thousand sites, ranging from national forests, scenic rivers, and seashores to battlefields, cultural meccas, and treasure troves of history.  

Bring America's outdoors experts to you!

We called upon hundreds of rangers, naturalists, historians, and information officers to find the inside information--tips on where to go, what's special, and what to see--about both well-known and little-known recreational sites, some of which are closer to where you live than you ever imagined.   We give you their mailing addresses, phone numbers, and website addresses, so you can be in touch with them.   You'll be surprised to learn that these experts are all too happy to share their information with you.  

Prepare you for your next outdoor adventure. . . and save you money!

The custodians of Uncle Sam's Great Outdoors--in particular, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Forest Service--have prepared brochures, maps, guidebooks, checklists, and posters for all recreational activities, including camping, boating, hunting, fishing, and scenic driving. We show you how to get this invaluable material--often for free or at very low cost.

GET free maps, travel guides, and more!

FIND nearby wonders and overlooked gems!

The Everglades,  Golden Gate Park,  Lewis and Clark Trail,  Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River,  Mount Rushmore,  Gettysburg Battlefield,  BLUE RIDGE Parkway,  Apostle Islands, National Lakeshore,  Assateague Island, Harpers Ferry,  Trail of Tears,  Fort Sumter, Statue of Liberty,  Big Cypress National Preserve,  The White House,  Wright Brothers Memorial,  Frederick Douglass Memorial Home,  Great Smoky Mountains,  Appomattox Courthouse,  Acadia National Park,  Gila Cliff Dwellings, Little Bighorn Battlefield,  Point Reyes,  Bryce Canyon,  Tuskegee Institute,  Craters of the Moon, National Monument,  The Grand Tetons,  Valley Forge,  Mark Twain National Forest,  Carlsbad Caverns, Mount Rainier,  Mammoth Cave,  Fort  Clatsop,  Black Kettle National Grassland, Nez Perce National Historical Park,  Dinosaur National Monument, Appalachian Trail,  Muir Woods,  Abraham Lincoln Birthplace,  Fire Island,  Sleeping Bear Dunes,  Hell's Canyon,  Cape Cod,  Effigy Mounds.

Enjoy your Great Outdoors--and preserve it for generations to come.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 602 pages
  • Publisher: Random House; 1 edition (March 3, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0679771611
  • ISBN-13: 978-0679771616
  • Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.5 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,431,171 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A comprehensive overview, April 23, 1998
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This review is from: Uncle Sam's Guide to the Great Outdoors (Paperback)
The guide includes a brief description of more than 1,000 public sites and tells the reader where to get more detailed--and usually free--information. For a book of this size (600 pages) and modest price, it is an excellent starting point for the traveler. To include everything else (maps, prices for accommodations, etc.) the book would have to be several times its size and price.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Who is the audience?, April 1, 1998
This review is from: Uncle Sam's Guide to the Great Outdoors (Paperback)
Uncle Sam's Guide to the Great Outdoors is a curious compilation of odds and ends about National Parks, Monuments and Forests. I purchased it in anticipation of an April trip to the Great Smokey Mountain National Park as well as an aid for a June drive from Texas to California. I was looking forward to having e-mail addresses and descriptions of park features in a single compendium rather than scattered through various guide books. My first reaction to the book was dismay that the pages were so barren. There is an astonishing percentage of white space: fonts are large; line and paragraph spacing are loose; and paragraphs are so far from the right margin that my reading lamp glares off the whiteness. If this book were done in the same style as Fodor's, it's total length would decrease by about 70%. My second reaction, based on reading the chapters on Tennessee, Utah, Arizona and California, is who is the audience? If it's intended for people who don't spend much time in national parks, these descriptions won't draw much enthusiasm for visiting. If it's intended for relatively knowledgable hikers, the critical information is scant. There are any number of regional guidebooks that give detailed, highly glowing accounts of National Parks within their area. What I had hoped for was something that exceeded those guides. Instead, there's not enough information to entice the neophyte to a new area, nor is there much help, for example, on whether Zion National Park contains cabins for rent that are in my budget. What would be really useful would be a synopsis of camping and cabin rental availability with price quotes, average monthly high and low temperatures, detailed descriptions of hikes and other activities, maps of the Park, Monument or Forest, maps at the start of each section that locate the sites discussed, statistics on the average numbers of visitors in each month (how crowded is the park?), etc. Most of this information is presented skimpily or not at all in Uncle Sam's. The e-mail addresses will ! very likely be useful, but beyond these items, there is little in this book to recommend it.
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