Tucson Hiking Guide - (Pruett) 4th Edition by Betty Leavengood (Paperback)

About the Book

This rich, enthusiastic guide to the Tucson, Rincon, Santa Catalina, and Santa Rita Mountains has been completely revised. Betty Leavengood's fourth edition of her bestselling Tucson Hiking Guide offers new routes and updated access information, detailed maps, and clear descriptions to area trailheads. This latest edition includes thirty-seven hikes rated easy to difficult by mountain range; revised information on precautions for desert hiking; historical notes, photographs, and anecdotes; and detailed maps and descriptions with elevation/distance.

Book Synopsis

This rich, enthusiastic guide to the Tucson, Rincon, Santa Catalina, and Santa Rita Mountains has been completely revised. Betty Leavengood's fourth edition of her bestselling Tucson Hiking Guide offers new routes and updated access information, detailed maps, and clear descriptions to area trailheads. This latest edition includes thirty-seven hikes rated easy to difficult by mountain range; revised information on precautions for desert hiking; historical notes, photographs, and anecdotes; and detailed maps and descriptions with elevation/distance.

Review Quotes

"Using the Tucson Hiking Guide is a pleasure. Directions are clear and extremely specific yet this precise information is engagingly presented in a pleasantly readable and humorous style . . ."

--Tucson Sierra Club

About the Author

Betty Leavengood is a freelance writer and the author of "Tucson Hiking Guide, ""Grand Canyon Women: Lives Shaped by Landscape, Faraway Ranch: Chiricahua National Monument, "and "Hiker's Guide to the Santa Rita Mountains. "She cherishes the ever-changing scenery of the desert southwest.