Guide to the National Park Areas

This guide was a present for our 40th anniversary. We found it very useful and highly recommend it to other travelers who wish to learn more about our national parks. We didn't even know about many of the parks that are included.

My wife and I found the Scott's guide to be an excellent reference during our first try at visiting the national parks. Especially worthwhile is the coverage of many small areas that are included. We highly recommend this book and the accompanying guide to the eastern park areas.

We recently retired and bought our first motorhome. Wanting to visit the national parks we bought several guides to help us on our trip. These two were the best of the lot. The first couple of pages in each book include a map showing all of the parks in the country including some small places we would never have known about. We recommend the Scott's two guides.

I found this guide to be a very useful when we traveled to the western states of Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California. Especially helpful are the descriptions of smaller parks that we would probably have missed. Natural Bridges National Monument in southern Utah comes to mind. As recommended by the authors, we first stopped at the visitor centers and asked how to best see the parks. I highly recommend both this western guide and the companion eastern guide to anyone who plans to visit our national parks.

Their previous editions of these volumes were great and very practical. We carried them (both Eastern and Western editions) in our motorhome as we travel, and are looking forward to this new (and hopefull updated) edition. They do the best job of any on describing the National Park system, and it's a helpful reference for the traveler.