David T. Page

An updated and redesigned guide one of America's greatest destinations. Yosemite is a tremendously popular tourist destination, gaining visitors every year. The only complete guide to California’s southern Sierra Nevada―some of the most stunning wilderness in North America―is better than ever in this revised, updated, and beautifully redesigned third edition. Detailed reviews of lodging, dining, and recreation, plus outfitters, campsites, trails, and points of historic and cultural interest, make this book an essential companion to the incomparable Yosemite region. Renowned travel writer David T.

Page makes it easy to get the very most out of your journey. In this book, as with every title in the Explorer’s Guide series, you’ll get beautiful photography, up-to-date maps, and lots of helpful advice from an expert author. Page has seen everything the Sierra Nevada has to offer and now so can you!

Awarded the 2009 Bronze Medal in the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation's annual Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition: "Whether you want to stand on a glacier or have a beer with local bikers, this is the definitive (as well as wonderfully eccentric) guide to the immensity of the southern Sierra and Owens Valley. John Muir would be pleased."―Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear.

This Explorer's Great Destinations guidebook covers Yosemite to the Kern River Plateau and includes Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Giant Sequoia National Monument, the Mammoth Lakes region, Owens Valley and Eastern Sierra, as well as Death Valley National Park. Black-and-white photographs throughout.