101 Hikes in Northern California: Exploring Mountains, Valleys, and Seashore

By Matt Heid

Book Overview

This updated book highlights the 101 best hikes in Northern California, from family strolls to 22-mile treks.

This is the ultimate guide to the best of Northern California's incredible natural diversity.

The soaring granite of the High Sierra, crashing surf of the Pacific, volcanic landscape of the Modoc Plateau, ecological richness of the Klamath Mountains, magnificent redwoods of the North Coast, spectacular views of the San Francisco Bay Area-all are detailed in these pages.

Author Matt Heid has selected 101 of the region's best hikes, from 1-mile family strolls to challenging 22-mile treks, to give you as many options as possible. Covering the entire northern two-thirds of the state, including Big Sur and the southern Sierra Nevada, this book spans a much greater area than other similar guidebooks. What's more, the third edition opens up several new realms, with 18 entirely new trips and expanded coverage of the Sierra Nevada and North Coast regions.

Each hike includes total distance, elevation gain and loss, hiking time, highlights, difficulty rating, backpacking possibilities, an updated map, and a full route description, and indicates whether dogs are allowed.

Using this book, you'll discover these gems:

the largest contiguous old-growth redwood forest in the world (Hike 43)a herd of Roosevelt elk roaming a remote beach (Hike 49)astonishing views of Half Dome and much of Yosemite (Hike 87)gnarled, sculpted bristlecone pines that are more than 4000 years old (Hike 95)an active glacier below a serrated ridge of 14,000-foot peaks (Hike 96)

From Big Sur to Point Reyes, the Golden Gate Bridge to the Lost Coast, Sequoia National Park to the Modoc Plateau, and beyond, be INSPIRED to explore the natural splendor of Northern California.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899977812
• ISBN13: 9780899977812
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Wilderness Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Very Good Hiking Guide

I recently used this book, together with "Best Coast Hikes of Northern California" by Marc Soares and "California Hiking" by Stienstra and Brown, as a guide for a series of day hikes out of Santa Cruz. I found this book the most useful of the three (although all were good). It is thin enough that you can actually take it with you on the hike, and the hikes were all well chosen and described. One of the best feature was the small topo map included with each hike--not a replacement for a real USGS map if you are taking a long trip, but perfect for a 3-6 hour day hike. My only complaint is that author chose cutsie names for the trails, which made it sometimes hard to relate them to descriptions in other books, on park maps/brochures, etc