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Lonely Planet Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Spot wolves and grizzlies in Lamar Valley, watch geysers erupt in Old Faithful and Upper Geyser Basin, or get out on the water in a kayak or canoe at Jackson Lake; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks and begin your journey now!
Inside the Lonely Planet Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks Travel Guide
- User-friendly highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests
- Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
- Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices, emergency information, park seasonality, hiking trail junctions, viewpoints, landscapes, elevations, distances, difficulty levels, and durations
- Focused on the best - hikes, drives, and cycling tours
- Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, camping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, summer and winter activities, and hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
- Contextual insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, geology, wildlife, conservation
- Over 47 full-color trail and park maps and full-color images throughout
- Useful features - Travel with Children, Clothing and Equipment, and Day and Overnight Hikes
- Covers Yellowstone National Park area, Mammoth Country, Roosevelt Country, Canyon Country, Lake Country, Norris, Geyser Country, Bechler Region, Grand Teton National Park area, Jackson and more
The Perfect Choice Lonely Planet Yellowstone & Grand Teton , our most comprehensive guide to these two parks, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled.
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Read Lonely Planet Yellowstone Grand Teton National Parks Travel Guide Lonely Planet Bradley Mayhew Carolyn McCarthy Christopher Pitts Benedict Walker 9781786575944 Books
"This is an indispensable guide to Yellowstone and Tetons, filled with lots of information. It is particularly helpful for those who want to get away from the crowds, which there are plenty of in both parks. Lots of great tips about hiking and camping and other outdoors topics. Excellent reviews for places to stay, including campgrounds, as well as towns around the park and places to eat. Great background information.
Frustrating however was the organization. Even though there were some detailed maps, it was difficult to figure out where each section of Yellowstone was -- not shown on an overview map. Equally maddening was finding information about eating options. After hours of reviewing the contents I started to understand the authors' twisted organizational logic. But I got a good chuckle after handing the book to someone else, asking her to find information about eating options in the Old Faithful area. She practically gave up trying to find the right page!"
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Lonely Planet Yellowstone Grand Teton National Parks Travel Guide Lonely Planet Bradley Mayhew Carolyn McCarthy Christopher Pitts Benedict Walker 9781786575944 Books Reviews :
Lonely Planet Yellowstone Grand Teton National Parks Travel Guide Lonely Planet Bradley Mayhew Carolyn McCarthy Christopher Pitts Benedict Walker 9781786575944 Books Reviews
- NOTE this is included in my review of Yellowstone Sources "Yellowstone Library Resources Evaluated"
http//yellowstone2015.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-yellowstone-library-resources.html which is designed to serve as an annotted guide to Yellowstone titles.
This is my first experience with Lonely Planet and I thoroughly enjoyed it. In fact of all the “Guides†I looked at this is perhaps the best introduction with enough meat on the bone to plan a first time trip.
LPY>NP begins with a list of ten top experiences. They pick wildlife in Lamar, followed by the Upper Geyser Basin, Jackson Lake, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Climbing Grand Teton (way above my skill level) and ends with the Beartooth. The “If You Like†features is a ten thousand foot view of Wildlife, Thermal Features, Scenic Drives, Backcountry Trips, The Good Life, Winter, Learning, The Wild West and the Adrenaline Rush – clinging, white-water rafting, paragliding zip lines (all above my skill level).
For those who prefer a calendar approach LPY>NP accommodates. Little did I know admission to the reenactment of Custer’s Last Stand in June 25th was free?
The itineraries section, to steal a line from Claude Raines, “rounds up the usual suspects’ not that the “grand loop†can be avoided . They suggest a one day loop for Yellowstone South, Yellowstone North, four days Jackson Hole &Tetons, Teton in a Day, One week Yellowstone to Paradise (includes the Beartooth) and a four day Yellowstone “Big Loopâ€.
The activities section covers hiking, cycling, rafting, canoeing, fishing, wildlife watching, horseback riding, nature walks, snowboarding and skiing arranged by season. our interests are hiking (easy day hiking or as I call it “strollingâ€) and nature watching. They do a nice job of linking to individual hikes. These descriptions include duration, distance, difficulty, elevation change, start and finish, nearest junction and a summary. The information in the other sections seems as robust, but I can only remember Father fly fishing on the Gallatin 45 years ago – falling over and stripping to his skivvies to stay warm.
A section for “Travel with Children (something I haven’t had experience with for thirty years) provides interesting advice and tips. The highly touted “Junior Ranger†program is highlighted along with the Grand Adventure, Yellowstone Wildlife Olympics and Young Scientist Program. The Children’s Highlight list includes Adventure, Entertainment, Dining, Rainy Day Refuges and Coolest Camps and a section on safety. Travel with Pets, something total virgin to me, is covered. A list of accommodations for pets is provided.
The “On The Road†section is split between the parks. The usual suspects are covered but they include something I had not heard of the Bechler region. LPY>NP organizes this section into Sights, Driving , Day Hikes, Overnight Hikes, Cycling, Other Activities. Further sections are provide for Sleeping, Eating & Drinking, Shipping and Getting Around.
Each section starts off with a brief overview. Some regions receive considerably more detail than others. Lake has three paragraphs Canyon has six – including a very nice map. My knowledge of GTNP is significantly less than the northern big brother I ended up learning a lot.
There is a section on “Understand Yellowstone and Grand Teton†discuss the history, geology, wildlife and conservation efforts in the parks. There is a lot of detail though not to the extent of the complete tomes of Haines History or Bryan’s Geysers.
The “Survival Guide†section is basic A-Z reference from accommodations to work. The Transportation section covers air and land (including my preference Amtrak) with bicycle and bus. Clothing & Equipment ranges from clothing to footwear and socks through tents, tarps and sleeping bags. I intend to use none of the latter
Nicely linked to complete and thorough details.
It is a nice feature that many of the maps are pre-loaded so you need not have a connection to view them. There are some good checklists, which un-seasoned travelers may find very helpful. A list of local outfitters for gear and boats is included. I would thought they might use more hyperlinks, but understanding the fluidity of the web I have some sympathy why there were not included.
Perhaps the biggest limitation is the lack of an index and perhaps that is the librarian coming out in me although the search works well. It has a table of contents, but the old librarian has habits that are hard to break.
If I were to purchase a single “travel guide†I would purchase this one. - This book is covers much of the region, and our trip primarily focused on Yellowstone. We found this to be much better for planning a trip than for navigating through the park. The sections are not logically organized by park region, rather they have "Day Hike", or "Overnight Trips" that span several geographic areas. The book was especially poor for answering the question, "what else can we do around this area?", as there were no maps. It was somewhat difficult to compare the book the the park map; I would have preferred an integrated solution. For what it's worth, my brother in law showed up on our family vacation with the same book (good marketing by Lonely Planet) and similarly expressed a 2/5 star opinion. Their trip focused more on backpacking and fishing over 7 days. We mostly did hiking, ranger walks, etc with two kids.
- This is an indispensable guide to Yellowstone and Tetons, filled with lots of information. It is particularly helpful for those who want to get away from the crowds, which there are plenty of in both parks. Lots of great tips about hiking and camping and other outdoors topics. Excellent reviews for places to stay, including campgrounds, as well as towns around the park and places to eat. Great background information.
Frustrating however was the organization. Even though there were some detailed maps, it was difficult to figure out where each section of Yellowstone was -- not shown on an overview map. Equally maddening was finding information about eating options. After hours of reviewing the contents I started to understand the authors' twisted organizational logic. But I got a good chuckle after handing the book to someone else, asking her to find information about eating options in the Old Faithful area. She practically gave up trying to find the right page! - I was glad I got this as no one else in my party bothered to get a guide. If you've been to these parks, I think the guide might disappoint, because the information isn't as in depth as it could be. But, if you're like me, and basically planned the transportation and lodging a year ago and didn't plan anything else before leaving, then this is a good overview. It gave a bunch of sites to see by region and a few tidbits of interest about each. There are definitely things I wouldn't have seen without it. Combine this with the park maps they give you at the gate for maximum knowledge. There is a selection of hikes for each...but I didn't really use those. I agree with some other commenters that the organization could be better...but part of that has to do with how you decide to approach your touring. I found I was going the opposite way of how the book was written at times. But, overall, I'm glad I spent the money...and would buy it again!
- Being a digital book, I found it hard to "flip" through as I normally would a travel guide. I was able to mitigate some of that with bookmarks, highlighting and note-taking, but that doesn't completely compensate for the lack of physical pages. This also makes it simultaneously easier to CARRY with you but harder to USE when "out there" trying to re-plan a day that just got uprooted.
That said, the information in the book was superb at deciding ahead of time how long to stay and where to go and what to see (and what would probably be the best order to do everything in). There is so much to see, it's important to have a plan ahead of time to maximize the experience without having to rush anywhere. Book did a great job of highlighting how busy the park roads are and the frequent long lines waiting for wildlife to move.
