Hiking category: 1575 books

Best Easy Day Hikes San Francisco’s North Bay includes concise descriptions and detailed maps for twenty-two easy-to-follow hikes in Marin County, Sonoma County, and the Napa Valley. Discover a region of diverse scenery and natural splendors—including superlative bay views, ancient redwoods, windswept...

This guide to walks in greater Portland includes more than 75 of the best routes and destinations, including such gems as Forest Park in Portland and Rooster Rock in Corbett. Each route described includes distances and notes the steepness of the trail. Highlighted are recommended walks for birders,...

Over 20 hikes in Colorado.

On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted with fury. Triggered by the largest landslide ever recorded, a devastating lateral blast blew off the entire northern side of the volcano. Searing hot gasses, traveling at 650 miles per hour, scorched trees nearly twenty miles away. The mountain instantly...

The Poconos are a great place to hike with your dog. Your dog can climb hills that leave him panting, explore dark ravines, or circle lakes for miles and never lose sight of the water. This book describes the 20 best outings with your dog in the Pennsylvania mountains. While walking the dog, you'll get generous helpings of local history, botany, geology and more.

The Cleveland area is a great place to hike with your dog. Within a short drive your dog can climb hills that leave him panting, explore dark ravines, or follow streams for miles and never lose sight of the water. This book describes the 20 best outings you can find with your best trail pal. While walking the dog, you'll get generous helpings of history, botany, geology, and more.

A guidebook to walking the Camino Portugués (Portuguese Way), 620km from Lisbon in Portugal to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. The book gives stage-by-stage directions for the Central Camino, starting from Lisbon, Porto or Tui, the Coastal Camino between Porto and Redondela, and the Spiritual Variant...

Featuring more than 40 of the best hikes in the greater Seattle metro area, this exciting new guidebook points locals and visitors alike to trailheads within an hour's drive of Seattle.

Guidebook to 30 circular day walks in the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The routes, which range from 4 to 13 miles long take in parts of four counties - Berkshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire. The walks allow you to explore parts of the Ridgeway National Trail,...

Guidebook to the Way of the Roses, a 170-mile coast-to-coast cycle route across Lancashire and Yorkshire. The three-day journey (alternative two, four and five day itineraries are also outlined) begins in Morecambe and finishes in Bridlington, linking scenic country lanes, minor roads and traffic-free...

Guidebook to over 70 walking routes in the hills of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park in Scotland's Southern Highlands. Including 21 Munros on less-popular routes, as well as plenty of Corbetts and Grahams. Hill summits of Ben Lomond, the Cobbler, Ben Lui and the Arrochar Alps have plenty...

The Southern Upland Way is Scotland's coast-to-coast walk and the longest of the nation's Great Trails. 215 miles long, it links the pretty harbour village of Portpatrick on the west coast with Cockburnspath, a little south of Dunbar, in the east. The walk is at times a strenuous one, crossing the...

This pocket-size guide features 20 of the best, easy day hikes in the San Francisco area. From the North, South, and East Bays and the coastline along Highway 1, this guide covers hikes less than two-and-a-half hours in duration and is an ideal guide for those with limited time, young families, or...

Come join me for this 50-image photo journal as I cycle and hike across New Zealand. In this 13th volume I'll be enjoying a rejuvenating four days in the capitol city of Wellington. I'll start my adventure by taking a train into the downtown station, savoring the first hostel bed in six...