Guide to the Parks: Golden Gate National Recreation Area

Here is a fully revised and updated edition of the first official guide to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) -- America's most popular national park with more than 19 million visitors each year. Filled with more thai 140 photographs and illustrations, this guide contains profiles of over 31 individual park locales, plus dozens of sidebars outlining everything from bobcats to hawks, tide pools to shipwrecks, bed-and-breakfast inns to historic landmarks.

page description of a parkland, scenic area, or tourist destination that may include location within the GGNRA, walking trails, the odd piece of historical information (like how San Francisco got its drinking water in the early 1800s), and drawings of flora and fauna. A park that includes Muir Woods, Alcatraz Island, and the Golden Gate Bridge is well served by a book like this, the greatest asset of which is to let you guide yourself. -- From Independent Publisher