This book, while informative, is quite difficult to use. As a fairly experienced hiker, I was excited to use this book to explore my new surroundings. However, much to my disappointment, I found this book to be difficult to use, lacking basic information such as directions to the trail heads, elevation gain, and maps of the actual hikes. Instead, the author provides a series of topographical maps and detailed maps of the overall area (forest, park, etc) which do little to give the reader a real sense of the hike.
If I had the opportunity to do things over, I'm not certain I would purchase this book. It's given me hours of headache with little reward.