2023-24 Lowell Thomas Travel Award for Best Travel Guidebook
This photo- and information-packed inspirational bucket list encourages hikers and armchair travelers alike to fully explore our nation’s crown jewels.
America’s national parks are made up of the greatest geographical, geological, and ecological wonders on the planet, and some of their most awe-inspiring sites are only available to those willing to walk past the trailhead for just a mile or two.
Featuring spectacular photography and information, this book allows you to experience each park up close. Hikes range from half-mile nature walks on accessible boardwalks to strenuous full-day hikes to multiday backpacking trips. Each hike is chosen to showcase what is possible: hard and easy trails both short and long featuring mountains, canyons, waterfalls, wildlife meadows, forests, wildflowers, deserts, glaciers, volcanoes, beaches, and more.
The national parks have more trails than any one person can hike in a lifetime. Hiking America’s National Parks will inspire and inform hikers, walkers, and nature lovers to get out past that trailhead.
Karen Berger is the author of 20 books including Hiking America’s National Parks, America’s National Historic Trails, Great Hiking Trails of the World, and America's Great Hiking Trails, which won a gold Lowell Thomas Award for best travel book, and was a New York Times bestseller in the travel category. She writes about travel, the environment, hiking and backpacking, scuba diving, health, and music.
- ISBN-13: 9780847899234
- Genre: Photography, Nature and Outdoors
- Format: Hardcover Print
- Trim: 10 8/25" x 10 3/10 x 1 29/100"
- Page count: 384 pages
- Published by Rizzoli in 2023
- Written by Karen Berger, Photography by Jonathan Irish, Foreword by Sally Jewell
- Audience: Adult
