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California Desert Byways: 60 Backcountry Drives for the Whole Family

California Desert Byways: 60 Backcountry Drives for the Whole Family

List Price: $19.95
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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Sure does help one appreciate the desert!
Review: I bought this book for a spring fling in Death Valley and other desert areas. I never realized before the places I could drive to, all the little dirt roads to really neat places. Glad I bought it.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: useful and accurate, just wish it still had spiral binding
Review: I bought this newer edition to replace the old one I lost. This edition has better coverage, photos, etc., and is improved over the old one. But it no longer has the spiral binding that made my old one easier to use. That's disappointing, but I guess its what inside that counts, and that part is still good.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A real good guide if you like backcountry exploring.
Review: I find California Desert Byways really to be just right, since I'm not a hard-core four-wheeler. I just like getting off the beaten path and do some fun exploring, actually using my SUV's off-highway abilities. Since most of S. Calif. is desert, this book is a real good resource.

Rating: 0 stars
Summary: 50 of the most beautiful desert drives in West.
Review: I must admit that I didn't fully appreciate how spectacular and varied the great, complex expanses of the California Desert are until I began researching this book. Canyons, mountains, grasslands, alkalai flats, old miners' cabins, ghost towns ... the human and natural history here will astound you, as it did me. I provide not only detailed directions, but full-page maps for every route, history, geology, information sources, everything you need to fulfill your yearning for motoring adventure. It's all part of my expanding "Byways" series for California, Colorado, Utah and Idaho. Check 'em out, then hold on tight!

Rating: 0 stars
Summary: PRAISE for Tony Huegel's Byways Guidebooks
Review: The Byways series for owners of sport-utility vehicles are the best guides available to spectacular drives, produced in a handy, reader-friendly format and researched by a professional journalist. MotorWeek (Maryland Public Television) said: "Author Tony Huegel has...produced some of the best guides that we've ever seen for those who really want to get away with the whole family. California Coastal Byways, California Desert Byways, Sierra Nevada Byways and Idaho Off-Road all offer concise directions, clear maps and excellent advice." Also available: Utah Byways and, in 1998, Colorado Byways!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This is a great guide for people with SUVs.
Review: This is a really good guidebook for anyone who drives a stock sport-utility vehicle, and who wants to explore the backways of places like Death Valley, Joshua Tree, Anza-Borrego, Mojave Preserve and lots of lesser-known places in the California desert. Real handy, with a spiral binding and color maps.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: one page wonders
Review: This spiral-bound book has a great one-page description/one-page map format which makes it easy to use in the car. Huegel has travelled backroads both familiar and less-known and his descriptions are accurate if a little bland. At times I wish he had expanded his prose beyond the rigid one page format but the visitor with a sharp eye can find the sites and sights he omits. He adventures with his family and avoids rough roads like the Lippincott Mine Road in DVNP (a wise decision as drivers need experience here) concentrating on easier routes, although the Inyo Mountain trip definitely needs 4WD (its pretty tough in spots). He also includes many routes outside the familiar park system proving that you don't have to go to a designated scenic area to enjoy driving in the California desert.


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