This book makes you the tour guide for your group! Janet Chapple shares her tips to pack for your trip, spot wildlife, see the best views, catch geyser eruptions, stay safe, and escape the crowds. The author's passion for the park, which began when her parents worked at Old Faithful Inn in the early twentieth century, shines throughout. Whether you want to hike in the geyser basins and forests, drive the mountain passes, ride horseback, or take a boat out on the lake, the mile-by-mile road logs prepare you. The description ...
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This book makes you the tour guide for your group! Janet Chapple shares her tips to pack for your trip, spot wildlife, see the best views, catch geyser eruptions, stay safe, and escape the crowds. The author's passion for the park, which began when her parents worked at Old Faithful Inn in the early twentieth century, shines throughout. Whether you want to hike in the geyser basins and forests, drive the mountain passes, ride horseback, or take a boat out on the lake, the mile-by-mile road logs prepare you. The description is enlivened by entertaining historical anecdotes. This sixth edition, fully updated for 2020 by editor Beth Chapple and geologist Jo-Ann Sherwin, includes which geysers and hot springs are active, the new overlooks at Grand Prismatic Spring and the south rim of the canyon, a new time line of the geology, and explanations of the geological forces like lava flows and the Yellowstone hot spot. The book is in full color with 38 new and revised maps. Charts of the facilities and a field guide to the wildlife and wildflowers round out this comprehensive guide to America's first national park. After the first edition won Gold in the Travel Guides category in ForeWord Magazine's 2002 Book of the Year Awards, later editions won Silver in the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards in 2010 and 2018.
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If you aren't using this Yellowstone Treasures book, you will miss so much along the way and in the park. The book is broken into sections. For example, there's the drive from Canyon to Norris or West Thumb to Canyon, with miles given along each drive or section. Without the book, you'll go buzzing along the highway, missing hidden gems, trails, sights not to be missed. It gives the length of trails, elevation of the hike, what's to see along the hike. It also divides the basin areas into sections (Upper, Lower, etc) and gives you a route to walk the geyers or mudpots, giving a bit of history or detail about each. Without the book, you'll walk the boardwalks without knowing the whole story or history. I missed this book terribly when we headed out of Yellowstone to the Grand Tetons. I had no guide and had no idea what to look for, what to do, where to go for hikes.
