National Geographic Guide to America's Outdoors: Southern Rockies

by Gary Ferguson

National Geographic Guide to America's Outdoors Southern Rockies Colorado Utah With Northern Arizona, northern New Mexico, and southwestern Wyoming In this practical, informative, richly illustrated guide, National Geographic takes you to the best nature sites in the southern Rockies and tells you what you need to know -- about the landscape, plants, animals, activities, and recreation -- to experience them fully. Over 55 major sites, plus numerous smaller ones, grouped by bioregion, including national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges; state parks; conservation areas and preserves; and wild and scenic rivers. Guided hikes and rivers Suggestions of where to hike, bike, camp, white-water raft, fish see wildlife, and more. Extensive resource listing 150 vivid color photos and 21 detailed, full-color maps.

Genres: Travel, Reference

288 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2001

About the author

Nature writer, 1956-
Award-winning author Gary Ferguson has written for a variety of national publications, including Vanity Fair and the Chicago Tribune, and is the author of twenty-six books on nature and science. His memoir, The Carry Home, which the Los Angeles Times called “gorgeous, with beauty on every page,” was awarded “Best Nature book of the Year” by the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute. Gary is the co-founder of Full Ecology, with his wife, social scientists Mary M. Clare.