National Geographic Guide to National Parks of the United States, 8th Edition (National Geographic Guide to the National Parks of the United States)

Great 20,000 foot overview of the wide variety of US National Parks, with enough info to winnow down your choices if your undecided which Park to visit next. Factual info - a bit if history, park highlight and must-sees, logistical info.

My wife and I just returned from a month long, 7500 mile road trip which include visits to nine major national parks. We have never been to a national park before and were eager to get our hands on a comprehensive source of information for the parks we planned to visit. This book fit the bill perfectly!Here's how we utilized it: As I drove to the next park along our route, my wife would read aloud that parks entry from the book. Each entry includes interesting details about the park's history, the most popular features/sites, and the best way to visit the park. The entry also includes a fairly detailed map of the park. As my wife read, she would make marks on the map, highlighting the places we would visit. Once we arrived at the park we had all of our stops planned out and ready to go!Why not just use the internet? In many of the parks and surrounding areas there was little to no cell coverage. Parts of Montana, Wyoming, and various other states just aren't covered. This book serves as a great fill-in. Obviously, it isn't as comprehensive as the web, but it provided us with all the information we needed to have enjoyable visits and all 9 parks we toured.

I like the book. It has maps of the park. It would be most helpful for day hikers.

We’ve visited more than a few National Parks in the U.S. since we started RVing. Such as Glacier, Yellowstone, Acadia, the Smokys and the Shenandoah’s to name some. We found it time consuming to research what we wanted to see in the park when we went into the visitor center. This book gives us the highlights of each park.It gives a brief history of each park, gives hiking trail information, where to go for great photographic places and other tips for making your visit efficient.

This is a really nice book! I bought it for my mom for Christmas and she loves it. Really high quality and lots of good stuff! Highly recommend.

I'm tackling the NPs one by one and I wanted a small, packable but useful reference. This is it. It gives you good information on each NP, what to do, what to see and directions, without overwhelming. Great pictures and additional external excursion ideas in and out of the park. This book will get a lot of use.

We are planning a trip to the Southwest and have about 8 National Parks on our agenda. This book has very helpful hints and ideas about how to organize your visit to see the most in however much time you have, whether it's just a couple of hours, a half day, or all day. It also has good photo hints - best times to be at certain locations. Be aware this book covers the 59 National Parks only - not other landmarks or historical sites such as Antietam or Gettysburg Battlefields, even though they are managed by the National Park Service.

I have had several versions of this book over the past 20 years and have gifted it many times. It is absolutely the best book on the National Parks I have seen! We have especially benefited from the advice on what to do if you have only 1 day or 2, and the listing of other nearby attractions is helpful too. I highly recommend if you are planning to visit parks!

Brilliant. Lots of very useful information.

Bought as a gift, the pictures are beautiful, makes me want to go

Bought as a Father's Day gift , he was pleased with it

Excellent compendium for the US national parks..very informative and a Great read.

Really useful if you are planning to visit the National Parks - gives excellent information and is also good as a reminder of the trip afterwards