Utah Camping: The Complete Guide to more than 400 Campgrounds (Foghorn Outdoors) [Paperback]

Gayen Wharton (Author), Tom Wharton (Author)

Book Description

Series: Foghorn Outdoors | Publication Date: April 9, 2001

For outdoor enthusiasts who are always looking for new places and ways to take in the fresh air, who love to camp, hike, fish, boat, and bike, Foghorn Outdoors offers excursion guides that highlight a variety of adventures near and far.

-- Features many new campsite listings, plus 16 sample three-day and weeklong itineraries

-- Includes new color photos of each region, plus updated information on campground facilities, regulations, reservation policies, and fees.

Product Details

• Paperback: 420 pages
• Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing (April 9, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566912865
• ISBN-13: 978-1566912860
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,626,205 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easily Our Favorite Guide to Utah's Campgrounds!!, November 1, 2006

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Dave & Kay Corby "Food & Travel Writers" (Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Utah Camping: The Complete Guide to more than 400 Campgrounds (Foghorn Outdoors) (Paperback)

The Foghorn series of campground guides is not without flaws. Even so, we know of no directories which do a better job of addressing campground aesthetics than these wonderful guides. In our experience, the look and feel of a campground is often the single greatest factor influencing the quality of a camping experience . . . and the factor totally ignored by nearly all other campground guides.

There are a number of directories which rate facilities, provide directions, tell you how to make reservations and give you an idea of the cost for a night's stay in a specific campground. This series gives similar basic information and then goes beyond that. The Foghorn guides actually give you a feel of what it is like to stay in a specific campground - a bit of a narrative description and a "scenic beauty rating" for each campground plus information about nearby recreation opportunities. We like that a lot.

Have we found instances where we liked a campground more or less than the book's author? Of course. Tastes differ and things change over time. Even so, we would rather have an admittedly subjective rating of a campground's intangibles than to have nothing to go on but a recitation of facts and figures.

Are the Foghorn Outdoors guides the only ones we use? No. But they are ALWAYS the first place we turn when selecting a destination campground.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Informative guide but ratings are too generous, June 6, 2008

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Reno Peters (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Utah Camping: The Complete Guide to more than 400 Campgrounds (Foghorn Outdoors) (Paperback)

We used this book extensively for a Utah car camping trip last month. While it does offer a lot of useful information, we found that we could not rely on the ratings given the campgrounds in deciding where to camp.

In the other foghorn guides, a 9 or 10 rating is relatively rare and usually well deserved. In this guide, however, they are dished out quite often in campgrounds other than private ones.

For example, if you look at the campgrounds along the Colorado outside of Moab, almost all are 9s. Yet these are located right by the road, have little shade, and very little privacy. Yes, the view in front of you is very nice but the road noise is very disturbing.

Also, in Capitol Reef, they awarded the Fruita campground a 10. This might be a 7 or even 8 but it's not a 10.

As far as not including Navajo National Monument as another reviewer complained, I believe NNM is located in Arizona and not Utah.

Other than the generous ratings, it's a fairly informative guide.

5.0 out of 5 stars Very complete book., August 30, 2010

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Trevor.ut - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Utah Camping: The Complete Guide to more than 400 Campgrounds (Foghorn Outdoors) (Paperback)

This book has wonderful information about camping in Utah. Slightly outdated but everything I have checked so far is still pretty accurate. I highly recommend this book to everyone, but act fast as it's no longer in print and being substituted by some vendors with a very similar book.