Book Description
With more than 600 miles of trails within just a few hours of New York City, the Catskills and the Hudson River Valley are a hiker's paradise, boasting varied and scenic terrain from Westchester County to Albany. This new guide from the experts at the Appalachian Mountain Club leads beginner and experienced hikers alike along sixty of the region's most spectacular trails, from short family nature walks to day-long hikes that reward with magnificent views. Each trip description includes a detailed map and a summary of the trip time, distance, and difficulty, plus an icon indicating whether the trail is also good for snowshoeing or cross-country. The guide includes appendices packed with snowshoe treks, rock climbing in the Gunks, and other opportunities for outdoor adventure in the region, making this guide an essential four-season reference for locals and visitors alike.
Special features include:
>Fifty day hikes for all ability levels, ranging from two to eight miles long
>Detailed and accurate trail descriptions
>Locator map and "At-A-Glance" highlights chart for easy trip comparison and planning
>Hiking and safety tips
>Detailed maps showing parking areas, trails, and natural highlights
>Nature Notes about prominent species, and unique natural features of each hike
>Photographs of plant and animal life reflecting each trip's hidden wonders
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The premier guide for anyone planning an excursion in New York's Catskills and Hudson Valley country!.......2006-08-09
There are more than 600 miles of hiking trails in the Catskill mountains and the Hudson Valley, locales that are within just a few hours of New York City. "AMC's Best Day Hikes In The Catskills & Hudson Valley" is a practical "day trip" guide to varied and scenic terrains that range from Westchester County to Albany, showcasing sixty of the most scenic and spectacular of these trails which suited for anything from short family nature walks to day-long hikes with magnificent views. Each individual trail trip includes a detailed map and a summary of the trip time, distance, and difficultly. An icon indicates whether the trail is also good for snowshoeing or cross-country skiing in the winter, making "AMC's Best Day Hikes In The Catskills & Hudson Valley" an all weather, all-season reference of value for both local residents and vacationing visitors. Enhanced with hiking and safety tips, advice for hiking with children, an 'At-a-Glance Trip Planner' for finding the best hikes suited to the reader's aspirations and limitations, "AMC's Best Day Hikes In The Catskills & Hudson Valley" is the premier guide for anyone planning an excursion in New York's Catskills and Hudson Valley country!
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Book Two: The Central Catskills with keys to hikes, trail maps, photos. Mount Tremper, Overlook, Ashokan High Point, Slide, Giant Ledge, Panther, Cornell, Wittenberg, Belleayre, Balsam, Haynes & Eagle, Big Indian, Peekamoose, Table Mountain, Dry Brook Ridge, Balsam Lake, Doubletop, plus the trail-less High Peaks.
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Love It!.......2004-06-05
The Catskills are an underappreaciated area, but Edward Henry's work is doing a lot to help correct this. The trail guide is informative and in-depth beyond the levels of most guides. The book is readable from your favorite armchair as well as a great guide to have on the trail. Every hike I've taken has been awesome.
Essential hiking info.......2002-12-17
Well written and informative. This is not only a trail guide but informs the reader of the history of the area
First rate hiking guide.......2002-08-04
This is a first-rate guide to hiking the Catskills. The author's detailed desciptions, plus maps, leave nothing to the imagination and give you the info you need to enjoy the terrain to the max.
A great guide.......2000-12-01
I was going on a hike with some friends into the Catskills and they recommended this book. They were right on to tell me about this. I really liked the detail and the maps. It made more out of the hiking than I usually get. It is well written and easy to use. I think it would be a good book for anyone going to the Catskills.
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A modern-day trail guide--complete with GPS locations, newly drawn maps, and modern trail descriptions--to the 19th century trails, viewpoints, and famous locations surrounding the Catskill Mountain House (est. 1823). These were America's first recreational mountain trails, frequented by the Hudson River School painters, Romantic-era writers, and America's pioneering landscape architects. Includes reprints from two classic 19th c. Catskill guidebooks.
Book Description
This detailed guide provides complete coverage of more than 300 miles of trails in the beautiful Catskill Mountains.
Customer Reviews:
Best Catskill hiking book out there.......2007-04-06
Very good variety of hikes from easy to rough! Used for some hikes already, and if very accurate. Replaced my older guide from about 1987.
Catskills are a great place to hike. Not that far from New York City, yet not crowded at all.
Cult classic.......2006-01-19
This book is devoid of BS and purple prose and some people will need more hand holding, for sure. this is a trail guide written for the more "advanced" hiking crowd--those who need TLC may be better off with a purfumey regional guide that tells you where all the good capuccino joints are. This is the best guide out there--and tho it has a little tweaking to do, it will be the cult classic for the next 20 years. Trust me. :)
Okay... could be more specific........2005-10-06
This is really not to bad of a book. The map is helpful especially when driving to locate trailheads!!. I've been up two of the trails and they were fairly correct on the distance and time required. I think the author could have been more specific in his directions as to how to use the book (ie whether the distances and times are one way or round trip). He seems like he is speaking to someone who has been in the region and not to someone like me who is used to the type of hiking on the west coast. I also needed the map to figure out what he was talking about most of the time. I wouldn't complain if there were a few pictures.
In summation... a solid effort but I've read better.
Excellent guide! .......2005-10-04
This is an excellent guide with a great selection of trails and a handy topographical map with all the details necessary for planning and guiding you through the area.
VERY USE FULL GUIDE.......2005-09-30
We visit Castkill Mountain more than ones and this guide have everything you need to planning your hikes in this region. The map, the sharp description of the trails and the recommendation are very use full for experts as for the beginners. Today we have other supports for the map like Tyvek............ may be next edition?
Adrian
Book Description
Book One: The Northern Catskills. Photos, maps and keys to hikes. The escarpment wall, Huckleberry Pt., Plattekill Clove, Kaaterskill High Peak, Kaaterskill Clove, Roundtop, Hunter Mtn., Windham High Peak, Pratt's Rock, Mount Utsayantha, Huntersfield, The Devil's Path: Indian Head, Twin, Sugarloaf & Paltyeau, Bearpen, The Blackhead Range: Thomas Cole, Blackdome & Blackhead.
Customer Reviews:
BUYER BEWARE.......2007-06-06
Please be aware that although the title and description do not indicate, this is part of a two book set. This book covers the northern Catskills the other, the southern. I received this book only to discover that the area I was interested in hiking in was not covered by the book.
Great guide! .......2005-10-04
I bought this guide prior to going up to the Catskills near the area of Tannersville, Hunter Mountain and the Catskill Falls, and the guide was a great help in finding nice trails in the area with great text and indicative sketches of the trails.
However, you will need a decent topographical map with compass indications and height measures, which is not provided with these crude maps. Therefore, you should seriously consider the Catskills Mountain Guide as it has a great map of the entire Catskill region, but with less detail for each specific area.
Refreshing and Informative.......2004-06-05
This book is a lot different (and better) than most guides. I bought this one and liked so much I bought the other Catskill Trails book also. There is a lot of history and ecology here and I learned more about the mountains than from any of my other guidebooks. The pictures are nice and the trail selections among the best the Catskills have to offer. At times, you really do feel like you are hiking with a ranger!
No directions from Highway exits.......2004-04-05
Seems to have all the info except "how to reach the trail staring from HW exit". I was expecting direction starting from nearest highway exit and was not able find. I live in Long Island, and not familiar with Catskill area so direction is very important for me. I do not like to waste time searching for trailheads.
In spite of this -ve things, I gave 2 starts because it has lot of historic data.
The best Catskill Guide I've found.......2001-12-04
I picked up this book to replace some of the outdated Catskill Guides I already have. This book is much more than I expected. It is well-organized and a pleasure to read. The routes are always interesting and the author provides much more information about the Catskills' environment. I also like the fact that hikes range from really easy to quite difficult. A few of the places that Henry picks are real gems that I didn't even know about. The pictures are good too. The book is a great size for taking on the trail.
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- Great historical guide to the Catskills
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The Catskills: An Illustrated Historical Guide with Gazetteer
Arthur Adams
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This scrupulously revised edition offers a comprehensive introduction to the beauty and wonder of the Catskill mountain region. Combining a wealth of information with abundant illustrations, the book falls into four main sections. The first section deals principally with the geography of the area. Part Two focuses on the region's history, with subsections on Railroad Fever, The Romantic Era, War and Revolution, and Famous Hotels. Part Three- devoted to the Catskill's legends, literature, and art-features descriptive passages from the work of such famous writers as James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving. The final section is an extensive gazetteer that provides succint descriptions of the mountains, ranges, rivers, brooks, kills, creeks, and other geographical features of the region.
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Great historical guide to the Catskills.......2005-10-28
This is a fascinating book just loaded with historical information about the Catskills region of New York. Adams divides his book into four major sections (Geography; History; Legends, Literature and Art; and Gazetteer); this last mentioned section is by far the longest (almost half the book) and contains a listing with description of just about every named natural and human associated feature found in the Catskills. Anyone actually visiting the area will find this section very useful and informative.
Within the other sections Adams discusses railroads, modern highways, early exploration, famous hotels, famous people, and the art and literature of the region. He relates quite a few legends in full. There are also lots of photos (current and historical). An excellent guide in every way.
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The Catskills: A Bicycling Guide
Jay Wenk , and
Pierre Menetrier
Manufacturer: Purple Mountain Press
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The Catskills: A Bicycling Guide presents 27 tours in all parts of the Catskill and Shawangunk Mountains with skill levels, directions, maps, and scenic views.
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- It is what it is...
- A fine book and the definitive guide to the Catskills
- Get this book and get lost
- Guide to Catskill Trails
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Guide to Catskill trails (Forest preserve series)
Bruce Wadsworth
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It is what it is..........2003-07-31
Except for "definitive," I agree with most of the positives already mentioned. The negatives are really about local knowledge, something no print guide can ever cover, however user-friendly.
Even the most current NYC Transit print guide cannot anticipate train delays, or happen to mention that no signs direct you through the construction to the LIRR from the R train at Atlantic Ave. Hopelessly lost is when you end up in Ronkonkoma instead of the Cloisters, or when you take a train to Canal St. and find yourself over the East River wondering why the sun is rising in the west.
To minimize nasty surprises (you cannot eliminate them), talk to knowledgeable people with (very)recent experience of the area you plan to hike. (AMC's Mid-Hudson chapter is a good resource.) Post a question to an active discussion board. Take a shakedown hike. Get lost. Find your way back. Live to tell the tale.
Buy the Guide for what it is, not for what you hope it is.
A fine book and the definitive guide to the Catskills.......2001-07-18
The guide book as some minor errors as any guidebook does; however, it give a good description of each trail and one knows exactly what to expect. It's easy to read the trail descriptions and to narrow the search down to the trail that meets your specific needs. The maps for the region, sold separately, are referenced in the book which makes find the exact locations on the map easy. The author does a nice job of pointing out things of interest on the trail or what makes the particular trail interesting without giving away too much and thus leaves the discovery part of hiking in tact. With or without the guide book and maps the trails in the region are well marked and are very easy to follow. With a map, the trails are a snap and easy to navigate because there are not that many junctions and when there are junctions they are mark with signs showing direction and distance to various points. Additionally, once having read the guide and looked at the map a rough mental picture of what is to come is easy to create. Getting lost in the area seems like a hard task. I wold imagine that most people could use just a map and do fine, but the guide provides a sense of trails, so it's easy to decide which one to do. The above reviewer seems to lack basic hiking skills, a.k.a. a map or common sense or both, and they seem to believe that this is the guidebooks responsibility.
I've done several hikes in the area and have yet to have a single problem. Don't forget to purchase the maps of the region.
The guide is well written, a few minor and noticeable mistakes aside, and is the one you will want to purchase if you are going hiking in the area. Good luck
Get this book and get lost.......2000-11-20
Want to get horribly lost? Then get his book! The key to writing a useful guidebook is to put yourself in the shoes of the reader, something the authors of this book neglected to do. The misleading and incomplete directions in it got me lost both on the way to the trailhead and on the trail itself!
The descriptions to the trailhead were vague and cryptic at best, with very few references to street names or landmarks. I had to depend on the kindness of strangers to get myself to the trailhead. And once on the trail, I had to depend on the park rangers to stay on the right track.
While the book may make sense to the authors, it doesn't make sense to anyone who is new to the area (the very audience of this book). This book is in serious need of an outside editor who would have caught the many gaps in directions. I have no doubt that the authors know the region very well, but they did not do a good job communicating their knowledge.
Guide to Catskill Trails.......2000-06-10
This book was very imcomplete. It skimmed the surface of the hiking and camping situation in the catskills and would be suitable for only the most casual of hikers. There was not nearly enough information on the the types of camp sites, whether there are fishable lakes and what the regulations are for the region.
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