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This fifth edition of the popular guide to Yellowstone, the world's first national park, revises descriptions of the hot springs, geysers, and wildlife viewing spots. Mile-by-mile road logs document every approach to the park and every interior road. Through charts and explanations, readers learn of Yellowstone's campgrounds and facilities, geyser basins and the frequency of the geyser eruptions, and out-of-the-way hikes. Updates include descriptions of new lodgings, scientific information reflecting recent research, 65 new color photos, and revised maps. A field guide to the animals and plants, a selected reading list, and a 21-page index round out this comprehensive guidebook.
About the Author
Please visit https://www.yellowstonetreasures.com for lots of information about Yellowstone and a link to my blog.My association with Yellowstone goes back to early childhood days when my parents worked in Old Faithful Inn in the late 1930s and early 1940s. My love of Yellowstone Park can be traced to memories of waiting for geysers to erupt, visiting with rangers, attending slide shows and sing-alongs in the amphitheater, playing hide-and-seek in the inn, and watching as my father assigned passengers to the big yellow tour buses.As of 2021, four of my books are current: the sixth edition of the "Yellowstone Treasures" guidebook, a small book of the geyser walks called "Visiting Geyserland," the historical anthology of adventure stories "Through Early Yellowstone: Adventuring by Bicycle, Covered Wagon, Foot, Horseback, and Skis," and the translation of a Belgian visitor's account from his 1883 trip called "Yellowstone, Land of Wonders."Knowing about my connection to and love of the park is what led a friend to ask if I wanted to collaborate to update the long-popular "Haynes Guides" to Yellowstone (which went out of print in the 1960s) . Although the friend soon dropped out of the project, the momentum took hold, and I was hooked! Taking extended field trips once or twice a summer, reading, researching, and writing throughout the other seasons, I took five years to create "Yellowstone Treasures," which was released in January 2002. A second, fully updated, edition of "Yellowstone Treasures" was published in 2005, and further updated editions came out in 2009, 2013, 2017, and 2020. My original plan was to keep updating and marketing the guidebook every three to five years. When asked whether I really walked all the geyser routes and hiking trails described in the book, my answer is that I hiked on all the trails I recommend, some of them several times. I could never be in the park without walking around all of Upper Geyser Basin. Once I started out alone in an October snowstorm, but was soon joined by a bison. In summers, together with many friends and family members, I explored trails that I now recommend and a few others I don't. I recommend those that are not too strenuous--they are ways to get away from crowds and enjoy the Yellowstone that not everyone sees. The amazing creator of the 37 maps in "Yellowstone Treasures," the late Linton Brown, also contributed maps to my other two books. My late husband, Bruno Giletti, Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences at Brown University, contributed the geological history chapter to "Yellowstone Treasures" and wrote many of the geological sidebars that appear throughout the book, as well as taking the majority of the colored pictures. For the fourth and sixth editions, my friend Professional Geologist Jo-Ann Sherwin joined us to update our geological information that includes recent research on the park.
