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Mobil Travel Guide California and the West : Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah - The guide has a nice layout, which makes things easy to find. Each section gives a general overview of what there is to do in an area; this is a great starting point if you are not familiar with the location. I think this would be a great asset to anyone traveling about in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah.


Backcountry Adventures: Arizona - Covering more than 2,671 miles throughout the state of Arizona, Backcountry Adventures: Arizona provides all the information needed for anyone with a sport utility vehicle to explore the backcountry with their whole family. It features photographs and step-by-step directions for one hundred fifty seven scenic trails, from easy to challenging. Every trail includes maps, ratings for degree of difficulty and scenic beauty, driving times, distances, and GPS coordinates. Write-ups include histories of each ghost town and mining camp plus photos to identify animals and wildflowers.

Day Trips From Phoenix, Tucson, and Flagstaff - Enjoy a welcome change of pace and discover a world you may not know exists in your own backyard. Day Trips describes hundreds of fascinating and exciting things to do, many free of charge and most within a two-hour drive of Phoenix, Tucson, or Flagstaff. Outlining 42 unforgettable day trips and two-day vacations, this indispensable guide specifies where to go, what to see, where to eat, and where to shop. You may walk the streets of Tombstone, past the O.K. Corral, marvel at the carved cliffs of Mogollon Rim country, ascend Picacho Peak for a sprawling view of the Sonoran desert, witness a Hopi ceremonial dance or step into the microcosmic world of Biosphere 2. Each day trip includes travel directions, destination highlights, other places to visit along the way, choice restaurants, lodging and shopping.


National Geographic's Driving Guides to America Southwest : Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico - Discover the region's best Driving Tours with National Geographic as your guide. Features the region's best routes and attractions, including: Towns and cities, historical and cultural sites, natural areas, plus many surprises - Entertaining, insightful commentary - Useful travel tips - More than 120 original, color photographs - Detailed maps for each drive keyed to descriptions in text - Directions, mileages, and visitor information - And Much More!

Fodor's USA Road Guide : Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico - Everything travelers need for a great road trip. Encyclopedic listings with to-the-point descriptions of over 25,000 hotels, restaurants, and attractions in more than 5,000 towns series-wide. Contact information, rules of the road, scenic drives, climate charts, and more. State and town introductions provide background, timelines offer a sense of history. Fascinating thematic boxes showcase local art, culture, and notable events. Top 10 lists of parks, golf courses, beaches, and more. Scenic highway photos throughout get readers in the mood to hit the road. A complete 16-page atlas of detailed full-color highway maps, plus black-and-white maps covering walking and driving tours. An essential accessory for every car--useful to plan trips and a must-have on the road.


Frommer's Arizona 2001 - You’ll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer’s. It’s like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best.  Every Frommer’s Travel Guide is up-to-date, with exact prices for everything, dozens of color maps, and exciting coverage of sports, shopping, and nightlife. Completely updated every year, Frommer’s Arizona 2000 features gorgeous color photos of the state’s spectacular scenery. Extremely detailed and personally researched. From world-class golf resorts to authentic dude ranches, from stunning Southwestern-style B&Bs to rustic lodges and secluded campgrounds, their authors have chosen the very best places to stay throughout the state, in all price ranges. They’ll show you the most scenic drives, and take you outdoors for desert hikes, superb golf, thrilling white-water rafting, horseback riding, and more. Serious shoppers will appreciate the insider advice on finding the best of local art galleries and the most intriguing regional crafts, rugs, and pottery. And of course, you’ll discover where to find the best Mexican and Southwestern dining, from elegant resort restaurants to roadside joints t! hat offer great regional specialties. 


Sedona Hikes : 135 Day Hikes & 5 Vortex Sites around Sedona, Arizona (Revised 6th Edition) - The best Sedona hiking guide! First released in 1992, the authors have worked constantly to keep this guide updated and current through this new, revised 6th edition. Each hike is shown on two facing pages with complete directions to the trailhead, description of the hike, interesting historical information and a map. Each hike also has an elevation change graph, season-to-hike graph, difficulty and mileage graph and a how-crowded graph. There is a beautiful eight-page section of color photos in the middle of the book.

 
Worldwide Riding Vacations : A Global Guide - Not just a guide to dude ranches, this handsome updated edition lists more strenuous and interesting equestrian trips by continent and then by country. Printed on heavy coated stock and illustrated with many color photographs, it includes over 100 entries. Each lists the company, address, phone number, E-mail, FAX, closest airports, price, and when available. There are descriptions of accommodations, meals, activities, and the horses and riding equipment, as well as a list of equestrian travel agencies and associations. British equestrian writer Ruler writes frequently on riding vacations and is an amateur horseman. Sacks, a former college professor, now owns a horse farm. Includes several riding vacation ideas for the state of Arizona.

 
Great Family Vacations - West -  Family-travel expert Candyce H. Stapen has taken the hassle out of vacation planning with Great Family Vacations West. Inside you'll find twenty-five complete vacations loaded with enough activities to keep every member of your family happy for weeks. Whether you're looking for museums and historic sites, thrill-a-minute amusement parks, animal attractions, natural wonders and the great outdoors, sporting events, or a healthy dose of all the above and more, here's everything you need to make your next family vacation a great family vacation.

 
Hiking the Grand Canyon (A Sierra Club Totebook - Fully updated and expanded, this new edition of the ever-popular Sierra Club Totebook is an information-packed guide to America's best-known national park--destination of over four million visitors annually. Annerino offers seasoned advice on lodging, hiking equipment and technique, safety, weather and clothing, food requirements, map selection, and wilderness ethics.


Arizona Off The Beaten Path, 3rd Edition - For travelers looking to avoid crowd, this guide will help them discover the unique "must-see" attractions of the Grand Canyon State. Go beyond the usual tourist attractions to discover such hidden treasures as Meteor Crater, Skull Valley, and Tohono Chul Park. Dividing the state into five distinct sections, this handy, fully-updated guide is indispensable for the traveler looking to stay far from the crowds. Whatever you do when you get to Arizona, get off the interstate-and take this book with you! Bypass the crowded and the conventional with this guide to Arizona's many natural and manmade oddities. Tucson native Scott Barker has scoured the back country and combed the cities to find the rarest and most fascinating attractions that the Grand Canyon State has to offer. This guide includes detailed driving directions, hours of operation and other pertinent information.


Benchmark Arizona Road & Recreation Atlas - The Grand Canyon State comes to life with this award-winning atlas. A recreation guide has sections for campgrounds, boating areas, RV parks, and public golf courses, each fully indexed with amenity information. Benchmark's exclusive Landscape Maps give a 3-D effect to the land forms through color and shaded relief.


Arizona Day Hikes : A Guide to the Best Trails From Tucson to the Grand Canyon - Two books in one, this hiking guide features 100 of Arizona's best hiking trails, and an authoritative guide to the natural history of the Grand Canyon State's landscape. Ganci's knowledge of native species and local conditions, accompanied by 30 line drawings and 15 maps, helps hikers learn to identify each region's geology, weather, plant and animal life.


Arizona Trout Streams and Their Hatches : Fly-Fishing in the High Deserts of Arizona and Western New Mexico - The first complete guide to Arizona's trout waters and its important hatches, from one of America's most respected fly-fishing writers. Northern winters are cruel and endless, especially if you're a fly-fisherman. You could always tie flies and rent A River Runs through It for the umpteenth time, but this book offers an escape. Pack up the camper and head for Arizona, where you'll find winter temperatures in the 60s and 70s, cloudless skies, and inexpensive motels. More to the point, you'll discover brilliant and uncrowded trout fishing in a variety of waters, from bottom-release tailwater fisheries to fertile high-desert creeks. In the snow-fed streams and lakes in the north, wild Apache trout rise to the fly year-round. The authors take you to all the best trout waters throughout Arizona and parts of New Mexico. When and where to go, how to get there, what flies to expect on the water, and how best to imitate them--adventurous anglers will find everything they need in Arizona Trout Streams' detailed text, maps, and hatch charts. Includes detailed fly patterns and hatch charts. User-friendly format includes maps, stream data, and driving directions.


Native Roads: The Complete Motoring Guide to the Navajo and Hopi Nations- Some Arizona books have these large sections dotted off--the Indian reservations the authors think you needn't know about--but this book takes you there. It's informed, pragmatic, and refreshingly free of hype. The "Important Things to Know" chapter includes Navajo creation stories along with health precautions and how to buy a Navajo rug. From Four Corners National Monument to the Grand Canyon, Fran Kosik gives needed survival advice on motels, camping, restaurants (and gas stations, which aren't as plentiful as you may think), interspersed with scholarly archeological, geographical anthropological information, and sensitive attention to the people who still live there.


The Best of Phoenix and Tucson - Entertaining, opinionated, and thorough, The Best of Phoenix and Tucson features the best attractions, restaurants, and lodgings in Arizona's two largest cities. Beginning with an introduction to these popular Sunbelt cities, the guide continues with unauthorized histories, and then moves on to offer the authors' 250 ten-best selections for each city. These comprehensive, detailed lists cover the best tourist spots, hidden attractions, desert hikes and bike routes, hotels, desert resorts, and watering holes. A "Proud Paupers" chapter points out the ten best free attractions and the cheapest sleeps and eats.

 

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Benchmark Arizona Road & Recreation Atlas - The Grand Canyon State comes to life with this award-winning atlas. A recreation guide has sections for campgrounds, boating areas, RV parks, and public golf courses, each fully indexed with amenity information. Benchmark's exclusive Landscape Maps give a 3-D effect to the land forms through color and shaded relief.

 

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