Coast Walks Santa Barbara Pocket Guide

The best Santa Barbara beaches are at your feet in this great new pocket guide. Want to take a romantic sunset stroll? A family beach walk? A heart-pounding blufftop hike? Coastal hiking expert John McKinney helps you discover all of these pleasures and more along Santa Barbara's shores. The city's lively waterfront, hidden beaches, sand dunes even. Clear water, smooth sand, and a soft south light. Beach-walking doesn't get any better than this.

• Stroll Santa Barbara's lovely and lively waterfront, hike the idyllic Gaviota Coast and trek the vast Guadalupe Dunes.
• Discover Butterfly Beach, East Beach and Arroyo Burro Beach and beaches perfect for solitude, romance, and family fun.
• Take walks on the wild side to a harbor seal haven, monarch butterfly preserve and renowned bird refuge.

Perfect for your pocket or pack, Trailmaster Pocket Guides feature colorful stories, trusted trail accounts, and easy-to-follow maps for two dozen of the best day hikes in a region. Carefully crafted, handsomely designed, with top quality printing in the USA. High value and low-cost, Trailmaster Pocket Guides make great gifts, sure to delight those special hikers in your life.

Along with Coast Walks Santa Barbara, check out the other popular Trailmaster Pocket Guides, including HIKE Santa Barbara and WALK Santa Barbara.

John McKinney is the author of 30 books about hiking, parklands and nature, including The Hiker's Way and Hiking on the Edge: Dreams, Schemes, and 1600 Miles on the California Coastal Trail.

For 18 years, John, aka The Trailmaster, wrote a weekly hiking column for the Los Angeles Times, and has hiked and enthusiastically described more than ten thousand miles of trail across America and around the world. The intrepid Eagle Scout has written more than a thousand articles about hiking plus numerous trail guidebooks, including HIKE Southern California: A Day Hiker's Guide and Day Hiker's Guide to California's State Parks.

One of the nation's top hiking experts, John is particularly passionate about sharing the trails of his home state of California. John solo-hiked the entire California coast while pioneering the California Coastal Trail and is the only one to have visited, hiked - and written about - all 270 California State Parks.

When John McKinney says, Take a hike! people do. Many people - hikers and not - credit John's talks and books with inspiring them to hit the trail to a better life. John and his team created The Trailmaster Pocket Guides to share the best day hikes around California, and to give hikers the information they need in an engaging and easily accessible way.

A passionate advocate for hiking and our need to reconnect with nature, John McKinney shares his expertise on radio, TV, online, and as a public speaker. John has been featured or interviewed in major media from the Los Angeles Times to NPR to ABC World News, and appeared on numerous regional talk shows and news programs. Organizations that ask John to share his tips, trails, and inspiring tales include: schools and colleges, churches and retreats, the health and wellness community and conservation and trails organizations.