The Grand Canyon - Guidebook to Walking in America's Southwest

• Location
• Description
• Contents
• Introduction
• Sample Route
• Maps
• Reviews
• Further Reading

"It’s one of the biggest tourist magnets on the planet, but few venture beyond the car parks on the rim of the Grand Canyon. Now there’s no excuse. This guide offers no fewer than 38 different trail options within the Grand Canyon National Park. In addition to this, it’s an indispensable guide to practical issues associated with the area. If that’s not enough for you, Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks and Utah get the same thorough treatment. You’ll be spoilt for choice for years to come."

(Adventure Travel March - April 2008)

The guide describes some 80 trails in the three canyons. First-time visitors will probably be most interested in the rim-to-river trails of the Grand Canyon – they list seven from the very popular South Rim and five from the less accessible North Rim.
As well as a description, each trail has a sketch map and route profile. An important feature of the description is where you can get water, very important when the summer temperatures can reach 38 Celsius. The trail profile is useful since height differences are of the order of 1,500m. The maps make effective use of hill-shading to give a good idea of the topography.
The photographs are excellent, bringing out the red, purple, blue, brown and grey colours of the canyon, showing the near-vertical prows of rock, contrasting with the level rim, sharp against the sky.
Hard to see the other canyons as anything but anti-climatic, but the photographs belie that – amazing, swirling rock formations in Zion, while in Bryce there are more massed pinnacles than even Gaudi could conceive.
 

(Irish Mountain Log, Summer 2008)