Hiking books

By: Jeffrey & Brad Probst Best Easy Day Hikes Utah's High Uintas includes concise descriptions and easy-to-follow maps for thirty-one hikes through some of the most spectacular scenery in this backcountry wilderness. Featuring: GPS-compatible trail maps Trails within an hour's...

The Best Bears Ears National Monument Hikes book from the Colorado Mountain Club will provide essentail information about your visit to the monument. Includes color maps, trailhead directions, and details about the best trails Information on the prehistory and history...

Dramatic arches, natural bridges, soaring cliffs, balancing rocks, mysterious hoodoos, and slot canyons―Utah is famous for the unparalleled beauty of its five national parks. There’s so much to take in, and you want to see the best of it all....

By: Michael R. Kelsey Featuring Hiking, Camping, Geology, History, and Archaeology. "This book is about Lake Powell, located in the heart of the Colorado Plateau.  It’s main emphasis is on hiking, but also discussed are camping, geology, history and archaeology....

Mirror Lake to Kings Peak This map complements the Uinta 1, extending into the High Uintas Wilderness from Mirror Lake to Kings Peak covering 12 USGS 7.5' quads. The area is popular for horseback trips and hiking. Despite the remoteness...

This edition is basically the same as of the 1st, but a number of new hikes to fotogenic places and to rock art sites have been added, plus more local history. This book has brief stories of Charley Steen, the...

Salt Lake Valley - Trans-City Routes - Millcreek - Cottonwoods By Ashley Lauren Brown Urban Trails: Salt Lake City will get residents and visitors alike outside on more than 40 routes in the beautiful parks, canyons, and mountains in and...

The Stansbury touring map was created in 2001. One side presents a wide winter view of Deseret Peak and winter tours to the South. The other side is a detailed, full color ortho-topo including the Wilderness and adjacent Forest Service...

By: Ron Adkison Lace up your boots and sample fifty-nine of the finest trails in southern Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and the stunning 1.2-million-acre Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. With thorough descriptions and detailed maps, this book leads you...

By: Peter Francis Tassoni The Cedar Mesa country is a convoluted land of cliffs, arches, natural bridges, hoodoos, and spires. It is a land of flash floods and extreme temperature that demands much from those who would explore it. It...

By: Rudi Lambrechtse The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument covers 1.7 million acres in southern Utah, offering the hiker an experience of deep solitude surrounded by a wealth of geological, biological, and archaeological treasures. Hiking the Escalante opens the door to exploration of...

Hike, Bike, and Ski This multi-season map covers the area between Alta-Snowbird-Brighton (North) to Sundance (South). The photo side features the Lone Peak panorama (super-poster 6) and a view down-canyon (super-poster 8). Many popular winter routes are shown and the...

Best Easy Day Hikes Capitol Reef National Park features the best easy day hikes throughout the park. With detailed maps and trail descriptions, navigating these wonderful trails is made easy. It’s the perfect tool for day hikers, families, and local...

By: Stewart M. Green Moab - there's a lot of magic in that name. It conjures up bare-bones landscapes of stunning beauty, deep canyons excavated by the Colorado River, distant vistas of peak and plain, long cliff bands of multicolored...

By: Michael R. Kelsey This is a boater’s, rafter’s and canoeist’s guide to the Green and Colorado Rivers, between the towns of Green River and Moab, Utah.  The subjects covered are hiking, camping, geology, archaeology, and steamboating, cowboy, ranching &...

Twenty hikes in southern Utah, varying from half-hour strolls to full-day adventures. This guidebook is for everyone, including families. Published: 2018, 3rd edition

This guidebook covers the original 1.88 million acres of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument designated in 1996 to protect its natural wonders and preserve the area for scientific research. In 2017, the monument was trimmed to 1 million acres, reducing protections...

Fully experience Capitol Reef National Park and it's stunning landscape on foot or from the road with this comprehensive guide! Inside you will find: Covers: Hikes from the casual to the difficult; Canyoneering routes and tips; Overnight treks; Scenic drives...

By: Steve Allen Utah's Escalante: a vast jigsaw puzzle of desert canyons, draws, defiles, gorges, slots, and washes demarcating upland expanses of slickrock, benches, and ridges and delineating towers, pinnacles, and peaks. This guide features 37 major hikes designed to...

By: Ralph Lee Hopkins Eager to explore the dramatic canyons, mesas, and isolated mountain ranges of the Colorado Plateau? Discover ancient sand dunes, a vanished sea, and colorful sedimentary layers, places where dinosaurs once roamed? Hike a slot canyon through...

By: Bill Schneider Fully updated and revised, this edition includes trail descriptions and maps of the author's favorite short hikes in Canyonlands and Arches National Parks. All hikes included in this book, with one exception, do not have steep hills,...

WOW. Think of it as the Wonder of Wilderness. Because that’s your destination when Hiking from Here to WOW: Utah Canyon Country by Kathy and Craig Copeland is your guide. It describes the 90 most compelling trails within our planet’s most bizarrely...