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Usually ships in 28-42 business days | | | | | | Yosemite's granite domes, sweeping vistas and graceful waterfalls amaze visitors, while giant trees tower over Sequoia and Kings Canyon. Whether you want to sit among flowers in Tuolumne Meadows or scale the heights of Half Dome, gear up with this top-selli | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Danny Palmerlee | | Paperback: | 296 pages | | Publisher: | Lonely Planet | | Publication Date: | April 01, 2008 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1741045592 | | Product Length: | 7.8 inches | | Product Width: | 5.1 inches | | Product Height: | 1.0 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.0 pounds | | Package Length: | 7.5 inches | | Package Width: | 5.0 inches | | Package Height: | 0.7 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 13 reviews |
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18 of 18 found the following review helpful:
Handy guide to Yosemite for first or second time visitor Dec 30, 2005
By 410
A very well assembled collection of recommendations and facts for planning a trip to Yosemite. If you want to get the most of your trip to the region, planning is essential. Just showing up will severely compromise the options you have available. If you are planning to also visit Sequoia/Kings Canyon, you might want to opt for the Frommer's Guide or Lonely Planet's "Hiking In The Sierra Nevada." Personally, I think this guide has a little more detail and better organization than the Moon guide, with the maps being far better.
Planning: The book does a very nice job giving you phone numbers, camp locations, amenities, and tips on which sites will fill up first. This really is the most important, especially if you want to camp at a popular location or want to do overnight hikes in one of the more popular destinations. If you want to stay in one of the valley hotels think a year in adavance (at least), camping in the valley needs reservations 6-8 months in advance.
Trip descriptions: For the places I visited the descriptions were thorough but not overwhelming in detail. The book has both short trips (1-3 days) as well as longer excursions, but many of these can be abbreviated to suit your needs.
Maps: You will certainly need your own big topo map when on the hike, but the maps here (and in other Lonely Planet guides) are among the best you will find in this sort of guide. First they are topographic, which helps you with overall planning, even if you will eventually make use of a big map later on. Second, the maps are in two colors, which facilitates reading immensely. Finally, the printing is fine and crisp. Some other guides have blurry reproductions of USGS maps that look like they were printed onto a paper towel.
Other: The book is compact and lightweight. If you are an obsessive type you could carry it along on your hike without adding too much weight.
Overall, this is a great guide to aid in planning a trip to the region, especially those on their first couple of excursions to the region. For those who want more details on other trips check out Sierra North and Sierra South, as well as books by Mike White, R. J. Secor, and Steve Roper.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Great to have along Nov 08, 2006
By beesknees
I've lived in California for 3 years and have been to Yosemite at least 5 times. We have gone for backpacking trips, car camping trips, and stayed at Curry Village. We always bring this book with us. You need to have a book like this with you when you are there so you can both plan ahead and do things on the fly. It's a great book that highlights all the must-see spots. Yosemite rarely disappoints.. even if some spots are crowded, once you get there, you can understand why! Lonely Planet books in general area always well organized and have great maps. I like how this book had both short hikes as well as some longer overnight backpacking trips. It also does a good job of detailing all the campgrounds. If you want more detail (or a little different perspective) on hikes and backpacking trips, get "Hiking in the Sierra Nevada" by Lonely Planet.
8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 helpful and clear. Sep 23, 2005
By G. Griffin
I enjoyed this guide for the easy to find information and easy to read maps. It gave good hike descriptions and the list of spotlighted activites was right on target. I do use this regularly to create my plans for the park. This did lack the personal touch that I found in some other references and found myself picking up other guides to go with the maps in this book. The Moon guide was by far my favorite. But do check it out if your going to Yosemite. More information is always better.
17 of 22 found the following review helpful:
 Disappointed in this guide Apr 24, 2003
I bought this book and was given a copy of the Moon guide to Yosemite. The Lonely Planet guide has color photos but what I really needed was help in planning a big family and friends camping trip. The Moon guide had a lot of information about different ways to "do" Yosemite, it was more like a guide tha Lonely Planet's book. The outdoor recreation coverage was better too.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Good stuff! Jun 03, 2006
By D. Schwartz
I thought this was a pretty well-rounded overview of Yosemite with some nice pics to boot. I've been hiking all over Calif but never quite got around to hitting the Big Y. I had seen pics and knew it was great, but I wasn't quite sure what the best approach to schedule a three-day weekend. Well, this baby helped a lot -- reservations, planning hikes, meals and all that a snap. The maps and spotlight-recommendations were great.
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