Best Easy Day Hikes Yosemite National Park (Best Easy Day Hikes Series)

Yosemite is one of the most popular of our national parks with around four million visitors a year. Most of those people will take a hike or two or more while on their visit. Wouldn’t it be great if there were a pocket-sized guide to the most popular of the hikes in the park to take along? Look no further than this book. First, it is the perfect size — only four by seven inches — to fit into a pocket or day pack and it weighs a mere 2.4 ounces. There is an introduction, what concerns hikers should have and what is really of no concern, a system map for the Yosemite shuttle, a ranking of the hikes from easiest to most challenging, and a legend for the maps. Twenty-five individual hikes in six different areas of the park are each represented its own section including a description of the hike, distance, elevation change, hiking time, trail surface, difficulty, a map, what facilities are along the way, and how to find the trailhead. This is a perfect and most useful guide for anyone choosing to visit this gem of our National Park system.