Explorer's Guide to Death Valley National Park

by Betty Tucker-Bryan and T. Scott Bryan

Book Overview

Originally published in 1995, soon after Death Valley National Park became the fifty-third park in the U.S. park system, "The Explorer s Guide to Death Valley National Park" was the first complete... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870814095
• ISBN13: 9780870814099
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A perfect resource for your trip to Death Valley

This book provides a great deal of interesting commentary. The distances between points in and around Death Valley are great, per the NPS, Scotty's Castle is 53 miles from Furnace Creek. _The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley National Park, Second Edition_ will give you interesting facts and features nearly every step of the way and keep you entertained the entire trip. This book will be your constant companion. It is well worth the small cost to purchase!!

Don't Go to Death Valley Without It

We picked up a copy of "The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley" and found this book to be a fantastic resource for our visit! The book is very comprehensive in nature, with detailed descriptions of drives along ALL the roads in the park. It turned out that during our visit in March 2005, a large number of the roads through the park were closed due to storm damage from this winter's record rains, so the book was truly a godsend in figuring out alternate routes through the park. Another great feature is that the authors tell you pretty accurately the condition of the roads (most of the roads are unpaved), including such important details as washed out areas, how steep are the grades, and the like. We also really appreciated the details on what mining ruins were to be found at the end of the bumpy drives. We found the information in this book to be very accurate and honest, helping us to decide what we wanted to see in our way-too-short visit to the park. This book is a great one-volume source for seeing the most when you visit Death Valley. Enjoy!

"Goodbye, Death Valley"

That was what people have thought that the name Death Valley had come from. A settler who had enough of what this land had to offer. And upon his exit, he muttered those words. This is all a theory, but this book will take you into the past and give you an all-around trip though a beautiful land that most people portray only as a barren wasteland. With descriptive writing and great photos, this book is A MUST for all of those who want to make the trip!

It will make your Death Valley trip great

It would take years of visits to Death Valley to enjoy all the trips outlined in this book, and without this book, you won't get as much out of them. This book really made my recent trip to Death Valley a success.One suggestion: get a map to use with this book. The book itself has only tiny outline-maps of the various trips described imposed on small silhouettes of Death Valley. A map will help you get an overview of where you are and where you want to go. A map will make it easier to plan your itinerary. I used Tom Harrison's excellent map of Death Valley, which you can score at outdoor-oriented stores. When you pay your user-fee at the park, they also will give you a simple map.Enjoy.

one of the top three books a visitor to d.v. should have!

This is the best book, to date, for a Death Valley visitors/explorers while in their vehicle. The authors cover a tremendous amount territory. It would probably take you a few years of solid exploration of Death Valley to complete all that is listed within these pages. I cannot say enough about the authors, both of whom have been associated professionally and recreationally to Death Valley for years.The book is a beautiful guide for those of us who want to learn more, or find certain locations. The Bryans help us find, sometimes, locations that are unknown by the general public. After 30 years of exploring and enjoining Death Valley, I still appreciate their book. No book is perfectly correct, but doggone it, it really is a fantastic book. I recommend, that after getting the book, covering the book with acetate. It will be used very frequent and often.Along with this book I recommend, Death Valley and the Amargosa, and Hiking guide to Death Valley.