60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Twin Cities
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (905 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0897324110 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-31 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Something for Everyone This book is great for visitors to the Twin Cities or long-time residents. Excellent directions and maps and useful and accurate information about the difficulty of the trail, trail length and access, plus special elements of interest. The book reads as though Tom is right there with you. One item that I find especially unique is that this book also presents trails that are accessible to people in wheelchairs or who have physical limitations that would preclude them from enjoying most areas of hiking and yet they can still get the feeling of being in the woods and a chance to enjoy the great. "For Twin Cities area hikers and outdoor enthusiasts" according to Midwest Book Review. 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Twin Cities by outdoor enthusiast, hiker, photographer, bird-watcher, and canoeist Tom Watson is a detailed and thoroughly "user friendly" guide to sixty different scenic hikes in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area of Minnesota, including wildlife hikes, historic hikes, urban hikes and even hikes for kids. Packed from cover to cover with maps, information about local resources, trail guides and more, 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles is an excellent and enthusiastically recommended planning resource for Twin Cities area hikers and outdoor enthusiasts looking for exercise, variety. Great hikes, so close, so many I knew there were a lot of parks around the cities but this book takes each one with a good trail system and shares the walk with the readereasy to follow and easy to review to decide which hikes to take. Also like the fact that the author is a naturalist and shares facts and tidbits about the things found along the hike. This is a good birthday or Christmas gift for anyone who is even a casual hiker.
Hikes include a sortie through Fort Snelling, rambles through the Big Woods and open savannas of Sakatah Lake, and walks along sections of the Grand Round Parkway Trail System-an inner city trail revealing surprisingly rustic areas along the way.
excellent and enthusiastically recommended planning resource for Twin Cities area hikers and outdoor enthusiasts looking for exercise, variety, fun. -- Wisconsin Bookwatch (The Midwest Book Review), January, 2003