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Top Trails Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks: Must-do Hikes for Everyone Paperback – July 15, 2009

by Andrew Dean Nystrom (Author), Morgan Konn (Photographer), Tim Cahill (Reader)

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With trips from Mammoth Hot Springs to Old Faithful, from the Absarokas to the Gallatin Range, and from Jackson Hole to the Teton Crest Trail, Top Trails Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks has all visitors need to enjoy the ultimate in natural and geothermal wonders--tranquil backcountry lakes, panoramic summits, glacier-carved canyons, steaming geyser basins, vast meadows teeming with wildlife, and much more. Award-winning author Andrew Dean Nystrom has selected the 45 best trips in the area, ranging in length from a half-mile stroll by some of the park's most colorful hot springs to a 30-mile trek past intriguing thermal features and wildlife galore.

The second edition features expanded coverage of the new Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve addition to Grand Teton National Park, family and kid-friendly hikes, legally soakable hot springs (with ratings) in both parks, moonlight hiking, and how to secure hard-to-get in-park lodging and campsite reservations.

Winner of a National Outdoor Book Award for best adventure guidebook in 2005, and a best-selling Wilderness Press title.
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"National Outdoor Book Award winner, Top Trails Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, is a guidebook with a lot of moxie. It's exceedingly well organized. The maps are uncluttered and easy to use. And introductory charts help you identify suitable trails. In addition to the book's smart design, Andrew Dean Nystrom has done a splendid job of researching and writing about the trails." - NOBA, noba-web.org

About the Author

Andrew Dean Nystrom is a writer, photographer, and travel planning consultant who specializes in adventure travel in Latin America and the western United States. Since earning his degree in Conservation Geography and Environmental Education at UC Berkeley, he has contributed to two dozen Fodor's and Lonely Planet travel guidebooks, covering locales as varied as Antarctica, the Rocky Mountains, the US southwest, Mexico, Bolivia, and Argentine and Chilean Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. He contributes frequently to Backpacker magazine and the nationally syndicated Travels with Lonely Planet newspaper column. His writing has been translated into a dozen languages.

Series: Top Trails
Paperback: 392 pages
Publisher: Wilderness Press; 2,Revised & enlarged edition (July 15, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0899975003
ISBN-13: 978-0899975009
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.8 x 8.2 inches
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Average Customer Review: 46 customer reviews
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David Prager

A Worthy Hiking Guide for our First National Park

May 12, 2016

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Few hiking destinations have the delight and allure of Yellowstone National Park and its nearby cousin Grand Teton National Park. This guide will lead hikers to some of the best trails these parks have to offer.

This guide describes 46 hikes, 34 in Yellowstone and 12 in Grand Teton. All major hiking areas are covered including Old Faithful, Yellowstone River canyon, Jenny Lake, and Bechler Meadows. Difficulty ranges from a 1.2 mile jaunt past the Artists Paint Pots to a 29.7 mile multi-day backpack journey along the Bechler River. 10 of the 46 hikes are more than 10 miles long, so this guide tends to favor long, remote backcountry trails over shorter frontcountry ones. However, the trail selection has enough variety to give several options for hikers of all interests and abilities.

Each hike contains clear driving directions to the trailhead (including warnings about rough roads), a best-season-to-hike recommendation, a solid but not-too-detailed trail description, and a rather general trail map. The guide’s maps are not as good as USGS topo maps: they have no contour lines, and they do not show a lot of detail. On the bright side, the guide does give some trail elevation profiles, which are better than no elevation information but not as good as contour lines.

In summary, while there are a few areas for improvement, I find no major faults with this guide. If you are planning to spend a few days or weeks in Yellowstone/Grand Teton, this book is a worthwhile investment.

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NewEnglander

Would benefit from modern technology

June 17, 2018

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A good book overall, but would definitely benefit from modern technology:
- It would be nice to have GPS coordinates for trailheads and some important features.
- For some reasons trail milestones only appear in text, but are not shown on maps, so sometimes it is difficult to understand what part of trail text is referring to. It should not be that difficult to place numbered milestone on the maps as well.
- Also sometimes trail descriptions refer to features or other trails that are not shown on the related map (e.g. for trail 11 Trout Lake the text refers to "an unofficial path heads southeast for five minutes", it is a very nice path indeed, but why is it not shown on the trail map?).
- And adding contours to trail maps would greatly help with understanding the terrain.

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C2Top Contributor: Cooking

Good Information, easy to understand

May 11, 2013

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I thought this book was excellent for covering the most popular hikes in Yellowstone and Grand Teton. I like that it has so many pictures, and a legend with all sorts of information to help you decide what you want to do. It lists the features of the trails, and includes so much useful information that this would be great book to have for anyone from the novice to the experienced hiker alike. I was not disappointed in this book at all, and I am up in Yellowstone and Grand Teton frequently. There are maps and pictures galore. Although the pictures are in black and white, you can still get a very good idea of the lay of the land and what there is there. I highly recommend this book.

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Tikki MarsTop Contributor: Watercolor Painting

Awesome hiking book

July 14, 2013

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I have been to Yellowstone several times. I had a crappy hiking book that was terribly out of date. I decided to buy this one as it had good reviews. I found it super easy to use. It has table summaries to show you exactly what feature is on which hike. It made it really easy to narrow down to the hikes that appealed to us most. The maps, photos and descriptions were also very consistent and thorough. Easily best hiking book I've had of any place. Wish they had one for my state.

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Fanastic, easy to get away from the crowds with this info

August 22, 2008

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We took a one week trip to Yellowstone at the end of July. This book was invaluable. The hikes are ranked from 1 (easiest) to 5 (hardest) making it simple for us to figure out what the four kids could handle. By taking trails rated over "2" we saw almost nobody else on the trails for most hikes. It seems that a vast majority of visitors to Yellowstone do not actually want to hike and having this book made it easy for us to have an uncrowded, pleasant experience. Very detailed, easy to find trail heads from the descriptions. Highly recommend this book, it made our experience fantastic. We also bought "Yellowstone Treasures: The Traveler's Companion to the National Park" which offers more info on the actual park. Together these books covered everything we needed to know.

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B. K. R. Studio Inc.

This is the BEST hiking trails book I've ever read!

June 24, 2017

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This is the BEST hiking trails book I've ever read. The trail summaries by region of the park, the trail descriptions and maps are all excellent. Wish all hiking books were put together this well.

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Firecracker

Good Book

March 10, 2018

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Just what I was looking for. Arrived quickly.

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