America's National Parks: The Complete Visitor's Guide

Yellowstone at noon in July. A queue for a viewpoint, a full car park, a sunset you watched through someone else's phone. That is what happens when you visit America's wild places with only a famous name and a hope.

This 265-page guide is the antidote. It helps you visit Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Zion, Glacier and twenty more parks besides — without the crowds, the confusion or the wasted days.

You will learn how passes work, which seasons suit which parks, where to stay, and how to build crowd-beating plans, with a wider atlas of parks and monuments, a trail atlas of hikes that justify the boots, and a parks year, month by month. Inside are wildlife encounters, worked budgets line by line, scenic roads that are parks in themselves, lodges inside the wonder, gateway towns that carry the trips, and the practical craft of arriving, hiking, driving and returning safely.

This is for park first-timers, road-trippers, families, photographers and slow travellers who want the wild, not just the viewpoint. It is not for anyone who thinks a park is a photo stop — this book asks you to walk in, stay a while, and let the place work on you.

A short guide names the famous viewpoints. A complete handbook plans the whole visit — arrival, trail, lodge, drive and return.

You will also learn how to time sunrise and sunset viewpoints, and how to handle altitude, heat and wildlife safely.

Get the complete guide today for only $11.99 — and walk into America's wild places prepared.

By Yovwe Samuels