Free Downloads National Geographic Yellowstone And Grand Teton National Parks Road Guide: The Essential Guide For Motorists (National Park Road Guide)

                
              
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National Geographic Yellowstone And Grand Teton National Parks Road Guide: The Essential Guide For Motorists (National Park Road Guide)
When the scenery out the car window is breathtaking, drivers and their passengers want maximum gaze time. Our popular road guide, completely revised and updated, features contiguous text and maps so visitors can follow the maps and descriptions as they drive along. The book’s efficient design eliminates having to flip back and forth between maps and text and count odometer mileage—a major frustration of other road guides.This indispensable guide tracks the major roads within Yellowstone National Park and its neighbor Grand Teton National Park. Detailed topographical maps point out where to look for wildlife such as mountain goats, bighorn sheep, elk, deer, and bear; geological formations; historical sites; and plants. Also included are locations for camping, fishing, and boating within the Wyoming parks.Several pages of maps and accompanying text cover the popular Grand Loop Road, describing the formation of the 308-foot Lower Falls, Yellowstone Canyon’s best views from Artist’s Point, and how Mud Volcano lives up to its name. This road guide not only helps visitors find their way around but also makes the trip richer, more interesting, and more enjoyable.
Series: National Park Road Guide
Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: National Geographic; Rev Upd edition (January 26, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 142620597X
ISBN-13: 978-1426205972
Product Dimensions:  4.2 x 0.2 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:  4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (92 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #20,616 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)   #3 in Books > Travel > United States > Wyoming > Yellowstone   #10 in Books > Travel > United States > West > Mountain   #13 in Books > Travel > Food, Lodging & Transportation > Road Travel
Concise well written guide to the roads in and around Yellowstone and Grand Teton Parks. It's a great size for a pocketbook, backpack or dash. It's full of history, wildlife info, but the detailed small maps are the best feature. Instead of working with a folding, flat map of the entire area, which is what is provided by the parks, you can just flip to the area you are interested in and get a lot of detailed info in a much more user friendly format. Great deal for the price.
Our family just returned from a trip to Yellowstone and Grand Teton parks. This guide is absolutely invaluable; we used it every day. It's easy to read and tells every point of interest along the road, including where the next restroom, picnic area, or scenic pullout is. Since each page covers no more than 10 miles of road, it's extremely detailed. I highly recommend it. I just noticed that National Geographic does a similar road guide for Yosemite, and I will be buying that one, too.
This road guide put the park into perspective as to where and how far the best trails and geysers were located. We used this little book in route more than any other book we purchased to prepare for our Yellowstone trip.For the first timer at these parks, this book is extremely useful!
Went to Yellowstone in June 2010, and took this book and several others along. We never used the other books once we were there. Only this one. It is an EXCELLENT guidebook that allows you to follow along as you drive through the park. You will know where you are and what points of interest there are each mile. It enabled us to see things that we would have never realized were there to see.
We took this small book along for our Yellowstone/Teton trip, but really barely used it. I pulled it out the day we drove through the Tetons, but found the park map provided at the visitors' center to be more helpful.
I thought this was a pretty good book for what it is--not a lot of detail but it lays out all of the major things to see and gives the mile markers of where they are located. I thought I would use it a lot but I really didn't. The maps they give you at the national parks were good enough for me and allowed me to find what I was looking for. There was some good info in this book about the places that was not in the NPS paper, so I found some of that marginally useful. The best use for this book would be if you have someone with you that can tell you what's coming up while you're driving so you can decide if you want to stop or not.
I purchased 2 guides for Yellowstone/Teton - the Moon Guide and Nat Geo.The Moon Guide was a good guide to prepare for the trip - more detailed information on flora and fauna, history, activities, places to eat and a lot of information fo Gateway cities. On the other hand, the NG guide is the ideal side-kick for drives. For every section of road on the main Yellowstone loop roads as well as the Teton main road, there is a dedicated map and highlights of the main attractions and activities, as well as the locations of places to eat or pick up supplies or fuel. My cell reception was virtually non-existent outside of the amenities areas, so it this guide was a handy resource to keep me going. Again, I still think a more detailed guide and probably some internet research beforehand is essential to figuring out what you want your experience to look like (geyser eruption times, ease of hiking trails, etc.) but this thin guy is worth it.
We used this book on a family vacation in 2010. As my husband drove through Yellowstone and the Tetons, I read the book's brief background notes about many spots. Although the parks' official (and free) map is sufficient to get around the parks, the added details of this road guide were very helpful for us to plan our trip and not get lost. We liked the animal spotting notations as well.
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