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FalconGuides' state paddling series gives readers a complete resource to the best paddling opportunities on rivers and lakes in their state, with an emphasis on beginner and intermediate paddling adventures. Carefully chosen, each route is within easy driving distance of population centers, providing quick access to wilderness for city residents and visitors alike. Each book features a balance of river and open water trips from across the state for avid paddlers, floaters, and anglers.

Best Easy Day Hikes Pittsburgh includes concise descriptions of the best short hikes in the area, with detailed maps of the routes. The 18 hikes in this guide are generally short, easy to follow, and guaranteed to please.

No other campground guidebook focuses solely on the Prairie State. Ohio offers a surprising array of quiet, out-of-the-way parks replete with lakes, rivers, rugged hills, and even rocky cliffs. Camping Ohio opens the door to these places. It includes: Ø Up-to-date trail information and route descriptionsØ Accurate directions to popular as well as less-traveled trailsØ Difficulty ratings for each hikeØ Historical highlightsØ Detailed trail mapsØ Zero-impact camping, and wilderness safety tips and techniques

In Hiking through History Pennsylvania, you can hike where George Washington suffered his first humiliating defeat as a military commander as well as the grounds where, over the course of a winter, he molded what would become a victorious army. Or you can walk the battlefield that not only turned the tide of the Civil War, but spawned one of the most famous speeches in American history. Or walk where the world’s first commercial oil well was drilled. There’s all that and more to explore. Hiking Through History Pennsylvania profiles 40 hikes focusing on the state’s military, industrial, natural and conservation history. Tragedies, some intentional, some not, are explored, too. Whether you’re a curious tourist or a local history buff, this is a comprehensive guidebook to the area’s natural and human history.

From a hike through Pymatuning State Park to see its famous spillway, to an old Indian path called the Warrior Trail, this book describes the best hikes in and around Pittsburgh, many of them never previously covered elsewhere.