Day Hike! Central Cascades: The Best Trails You Can Hike In a Day

by Mike McQuaide

A guide written just for people who want to spend their days in the mountains and their nights back at home. DAY HIKE! uncovers the best trails for the day tripper, whether you’re a newbie hiker or a veteran with hundreds of miles on your boots. Northwest trail expert Mike McQuaide leads us to more than 60 of the best day hike trails in the Central Cascades from the Olallie Lake Scenic Area and Mount Jefferson Wilderness in the north to the Mount Thielsen Wilderness in the south. Day Hike! Central Cascades describes classic routes—from easy to moderate to extreme—giving hikers the choices they want. Entertaining, accurate, and contemporary writing make this guide the one to keep near the water bottles.

Genres: Travel, Reference

304 pages, Paperback

First published April 7, 2005

Reviews

[Evan]

generally informative, concise, and funny. I've only been on a handful of the hikes listed, but the descriptions seem totally accurate. I wish the author had left out all the sub-one-mile, 30-minute nature trails that barely qualify as hikes, to make room for more five to ten mile hikes of moderate difficult. I can't really imagine the audience for a 0.5 mile nature trail is the same as for a 12 mile full day trek.