Backpacking Kentucky: Your Guide to the Most Beautiful Trails in the Bluegrass

by Valerie L Askren

Overview

Backpacking Kentucky is your personal guide to the best trails in the state. Written for both beginner and experienced backpackers, this book will get you off the beaten path and into the beautiful backwoods of the Bluegrass state. Endowed with a proliferation of sandstone arches, tumbling waterfalls, towering hemlocks, spring-fed creeks, and gorgeous wildflowers, Kentucky has an impressive array of overnight options for the backcountry adventurer. Each entry includes lively trail descriptions, detailed topographical maps, camping recommendations, and full-color photographs. Coverage includes the Red River Gorge; Big South Fork; Sheltowee Trace Trail; Land Between the Lakes; and many other areas. A special section on backpacking with kids is included to get the next generation out on the trails!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780692803967
Publisher:	Bluegrass Adventures
Publication date:	12/01/2016
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

After spending more than 20 years as a university researcher and professor, Valerie traded the ivory towers of academia for the great outdoors. Her background in natural resource economics and love of nature translated into writing outdoor guides books. An avid outdoors-woman, Valerie has swum in Africa's Lake Malawi, climbed China's Mount Tai, sailed the coast of southern France, biked Nova Scotia, and backpacked the überchallenging West Coast Trail of Vancouver Island. Her honeymoon was spent kayaking the Grand Canyon with her husband, Ben. The mother of four, Valerie lives in Lexington, Kentucky and hits the trail every chance she gets.