 | Category: | Books | | Genre: | Outdoors & Nature | | Author: | Steve Kolarick |
We bought this book in order to discover hikes around our hometown. It boasts 69 hikes with 48 maps.
Honestly, we're not impressed. It's kinda useful to pick through and find hikes we never knew about. Unfortunately, the directions on how to get there are sparse at best, and misleading at worst. They usually start out well, and get you from the Visitor Center off of I-70 to the main road the hike is on - but from there you're on your own.
For example, we recently tried the McDonald Creek Canyon hike, and the directions stated the hike began 2.5 miles from the first cattle guard (0.5 miles from the highway). Maybe our odometer is wrong, but it was nearly 4 miles to the trailhead. We had a good time hiking around on rock formations where we were (cuz we stopped at a parking area 2.5 miles in), but didn't find the real trailhead until too late in the day.
The maps in the book are nearly worthless as well. It does list different BLM maps for each hike, but it seems to me that if I'm going to shell out 17.00 for 135 pages, the maps should be a bit more helpful. 
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