Quick Stats
  » Author :: Randy Johnson
  » Pages :: 154
  » Size :: 8.96" x 6.32"
  » Format :: Paperback
  » Features: approx. 504 maps and 94 photographs

Description
Hiking North Carolina was substantially expanded for its 2nd edition and this new 2010 printing includes many further updates.

The bestselling statewide trail guide describes nearly 500 trails from the Blue Ridge Parkway and Great Smokies—Eastern America’s highest mountains—across the Piedmont, with state parks and national military parks and forests, to the Outer Banks Archipelago, and its Wildlife Refuges and National Seashores.

One of the most popular books in FalconGuides® series, Hiking North Carolina helps readers choose a challenging backpack adventure on the Appalachian Trail, a hike to photograph wildflowers and waterfalls, an easy family ramble on an urban greenway, or a trek into a lush subtropical enclave. All are indexed, organized in a Trail Finder, with accurate trailhead directions, detailed trail descriptions, more than 50 GPS compatible maps, difficulty ratings, elevation gains, and more for hundreds of hikes.

Hiking North Carolina is richly illustrated with nearly 100 photos and comes with a sewn binding guaranteed not to fail or it will be replaced for free.

Author Randy Johnson has been a trail designer, wilderness researcher, and backcountry manager. Randy launched the Grandfather Mountain wilderness management program that preserved public access and helped lead to the peak’s becoming the world’s only privately owned International Biosphere Reserve and now a state park. He is a widely published photojournalist and the author of Hiking the Blue Ridge Parkway, Best Easy Day Hikes Blue Ridge Parkway, Best Easy Day Hikes Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and Southern Snow: The Winter Guide to Dixie. Johnson is the former editor of United Airlines’ award-winning in-flight magazine, Hemispheres (World’s Best Inflight Magazine—2006 Avion Awards) and lives in Banner Elk near the Blue Ridge Parkway.

“I picked up this book with high expectations. I expected a lot — and that’s what I got.
This book, in short, is amazing. Each trail begins with a one-sentence overview so you can quickly tell if it’s not for you, then continues with detailed information ... and Web site link (finally, a guidebook that has realized we entered the 21st century). Following this, each trail features GPS compatible maps and an extremely detailed 1-4 page description of the hike you can take. Downfalls: The only con of this book is its title. The fact that the guide book appears to only encompass hiking may cause many people to skip over it. People with an interest in walking, trail running, picnicking with their families, educating their children or moving around in any fashion should also pick up this book.”— Amy Segreti, Carolina Living Editor, The Globe, Camp LeJeune, NC.