Your Guide to the National Parks

Michael Joseph Oswald

Jan 2012 · Michael Oswald

About this ebook

More than 530 color images, 140 easy-to-read maps, and 55 hiking tables make this guide to America's most scenic wilderness areas all 58 national parks the most appealing, comprehensive, and indispensable book of its kind.

Your Guide provides step-by-step itineraries, kid-friendly activities, and all of the most popular ranger programs to help plan your family vacation. Thousands of hotels, restaurants, and attractions beyond the parks, as well as 11 suggested road trips make it the ultimate dashboard companion. Exhaustive activity information, including hiking tables, easy-to-find trailhead markers, outfitter details, and backpacking essentials, serves as blueprint for an adventure of a lifetime. With something for everyone this is "Your Guide to the National Parks."

"Your Guide to the National Parks" is the recipient of the 2013 Ben Franklin Award in Travel.

Ratings and reviews

I thought I was buying a book until i paid for it then it was disclosed that it was available for my android which i do not own, so i just contributed to someone wallet.

Excellent guide and detailed information especially the hikes.

About the author

Michael Joseph Oswald (born June 18, 1980) is an American travel writer and self-proclaimed modern-day hobo. In 2003 he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with degrees in electrical engineering and chemistry. After four years working in a corporate environment, he escaped to a more adventurous lifestyle only to be mugged in Colombia, South America. Injuries sustained required surgery, and failure to follow doctor's orders blessed him with a permanently prostrate pinkie. This unfortunate event resulted in prompt return home and pursuit of safer travel: kayaking, biking, and hiking across America's National Parks. The fruit of these endeavors is Michael's debut title: Your Guide to the National Parks.When Michael isn't sleeping in his tent or converted bus, he lives and writes (typing with all nine functional fingers) at his parents' hobby farm in northeastern Wisconsin with their dog Scout (everyone loves To Kill a Mockingbird), cat Magpie, and goat Nellie.