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The Complete Hiking & Camping Guide to the American East

The American East is older, denser, wilder in different ways - and dramatically underestimated as hiking country.

The Appalachians are not the Rockies. They are lower, older, more forested, and in the deepest backcountry of the Smokies or the Adirondacks High Peaks, more genuinely trackless than anything in the West. The East also contains the country's strangest hiking: the limestone springs of Florida, the wind-polished granite of Acadia's ocean paths, the Great Lakes' shoreline sea caves. Five regions in full: the Smokies and Blue Ridge, New England, the Adirondacks and Catskills, Florida and the Gulf, and the Great Lakes Shoreline.

Inside this book

The Smokies & Blue Ridge

Alum Cave Trail to Mount LeConte - with the shelter reservation system that fills a year in advance. Charlie's Bunion on the AT ridge. Ramsey Cascades through old-growth forest. The Linville Gorge Wilderness, remote enough that a paper map is not optional.

New England

Acadia's Cadillac Mountain South Ridge Trail and the Beehive's iron rung ladders. The Presidential Range traverse - with its summit weather that holds the North American wind speed record. The Long Trail in Vermont. Mount Monadnock, possibly the most climbed mountain in the United States.

The Adirondacks & Catskills

The High Peaks Wilderness. The Indian Head and Twin Mountain loop on the Devil's Path - rated the most difficult non-technical trail in the Northeast by multiple sources, a characterisation this guide examines honestly. The Catskills' escarpment walks.

Florida & the Gulf

A genuinely different kind of hiking: the Santa Rosa Island beach trail, the Everglades' Pa-hay-okee and Anhinga Trails, Conecuh National Forest, Gulf Islands National Seashore - with the wildlife encounter guidance the subtropical environment demands.

The Great Lakes Shoreline

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Porcupine Mountains' Lake of the Clouds Escarpment. The Apostle Islands sea cave trails accessible only in winter when Lake Superior freezes - with ice thickness and crossing conditions explained. Sleeping Bear Dunes.

25 flagship trails across 5 regions. The American East, done properly.