Product Description: The best Sedona hiking guide! The 130 hikes in this edition have been totally revamped to include GPS coordinates. Each hike now features a color photograph and color map. First released in 1992, the authors have worked constantly to keep this guide updated and current through this latest edition. The very use-friendly format features each hike shown on facing pages with complete directions to the trailhead, description of the hike, photograph and map. Also included is an elevation change graph, season-to-hike chart, difficulty/mileage graph and how-crowded icon
Vortexes I was just in Sedona the weekend of 1/2/09 and there are now only three vortexes. Boynton Canyon, Chicken Point and a new one near the visitors center in Cottonwood.
Excellent hiking book I have bought a lot of hiking books and this is one of the best I've ever used. Sedona has many, many wonderful hikes. For each hike, this book provides distance, difficulty, a quick summary of the hike, a full description of the hike, driving directions to the trailhead, an elevation profile, and a color photo of the trail. This book categorizes the hikes by difficulty level, location, and personal favorites of the authors, which helps someone spending a few days in Sedona quickly find a few hikes they'll love.
I highly recommend this hiking book for anyone who wants to do some hiking in Sedona.
Great Book I've read a lot of reviews about this book and no one book is going to make everyone happy. My husband and I had a great time picking out hikes we wanted to go on. It got us where we wanted to go and it provided us enough information to know whether or not we'd enjoy them or not. There is a lot of construction and change going on in and around Sedona right now but we didn't have any problems navigating. The authors use the "Y" in Sedona as the starting point for each of the hikes. The "Y" is now two round-a-bouts. The book does exactly what it's supposed to do-Introduce you to some fantastic hikes, tells you how to get to them and has explanations and thoughts on each one. No complaints here.
Sedona Hikes This book seems to cover many great hiking areas in Sedona. It is quite explicit re: directions and information about the hiking trails. Great book for a person new to the area or even people who have been around awhile. Very informative!
Great Guide, but also buy a map I used this book for planning a 2 day visit to Sedona. I was extremely happy with the format. It has 2 pages per hike, with a high quality photo of what to expect for views, driving/hiking distance/time, as well as selections of their favorites. We didn't visit long enough to do a lot of the hikes, but we truly felt that we were able to select 3 hikes that were perfectly suited to our tastes and with nice variety. Overall, I don't think you could go wrong in Sedona, but I felt like this guide was well worth the price and only wish I could find similar guides for other locations. The Magnum's have done a great job, deserving of 5 stars.
The only shortcoming you may find is that their maps are very general and mostly help you find the trailhead (which was flawless). But, I prefer to have a quality map as well and I purchased the Emmitt Barks Cartography - Sedona Trails Map (not sure if it was on Amazon), and was very happy with it. Personally, I don't think you can create a detailed map inside the book for each hike, so I don't consider this a flaw to the book - just a bit of advice if you are planning a trip.
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