Best Tent Camping: Missouri & the Ozarks: Your Car-Camping Guide to Scenic Beauty, the Sounds of Nature, and an Escape from Civilization, Edition 2

Steve Henry

янв. 2014 г. · Menasha Ridge Press

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Best Tent Camping: Missouri and the Ozarks by Steve Henry leads readers to 50 quiet and beautiful camping hideaways in Missouri and northwest Arkansas. In addition to scenic beauty and relaxing atmosphere, campground profiles also include tips for outdoor activities and points of interest.

Best in Tent Camping Missouri and the Ozarks is unique and important simply because there's no similar printed guide available. Key Information and Campground Ratings boxes prominently displayed in each chapter make it easy for readers to scan and find a camping spot perfect for their weekend getaway.

Have a history buff in your group? Several campgrounds are located near historic sites and many others were constructed by CCC companies in the 1930s. Rivers for floating, tubing, or fishing are covered too. Camping with a road biker? Several profiles recommend good road biking loops. Especially helpful is a set of "Best For..." lists in the front of the book, guiding readers to the best campgrounds for scenic beauty, families, hiking, swimming, cycling and mountain biking, canoeing, and more.

Whether campers are looking for a place where they can also go fishing, hiking, or canoeing or the best sites for photography, Henry provides plenty of information to make choosing the right campsite easy. Not only does each campsite profile include a description and map, Henry has even included ratings on the beauty, privacy, spaciousness, and cleanliness of each site. Best Tent Camping: Missouri and the Ozarks makes planning your camping trip easy and enjoyable!

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Steve Henry grew up on a farm in the rolling hills of central Kansas, spending much of his youth working under the blue skies of the plains. After earning bachelor's degrees in Marketing and Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University, he served a sentence of seven years in the offices of an insurance company. Missing the outdoor life, he left the insurance company in 1985 to cycle across the continent twice, including one trek from Anchorage, Alaska to Key West, Florida.

In the years following those treks he's organized triathlons and other events, led bicycle and backpack tours, written several articles for cycling publications and outdoor websites, and enjoyed many hiking and camping trips. Steve is the author of 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: St. Louis from Menasha Ridge Press, now in its third edition, and was the author of Mountain Bike! The Ozarks, also from Menasha Ridge Press.

In the late 2000s a chance encounter drew him to southeast Utah. New friends introduced him the beauty found in that landscape's maze of canyons, and the mysterious Anasazi ruins and rock art hidden within this labyrinth lead him back to Utah every year. When he's not camping, hiking, or biking around Missouri, and Arkansas, and Utah Steve sees the country from the driver's seat of a Peterbilt 379.