Moon Handbook: Utah - Seasoned travel writers Bill McRae and Judy Jewell know the best ways to experience all that the Beehive State has to offer. The authors include great trip strategies that utilize Utah’s amazing outdoor attractions and unique history, such as Standing High: The Best Vistas and The Old West Tour. Packed with information on dining, transportation, and accommodations, Moon Utah has lots of options for a range of travel budgets. Every Moon guidebook includes recommendations for must-see sights and many regional, area, and city-centered maps. Including expert advice on the state’s best brewpubs, first-rate ski and snowboard resorts, and amazing National Parks, Moon Utah gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience...

Compass American Guides: Utah - Created by local writers and photographers, Compass American Guides are the ultimate insider's guides, providing in-depth coverage of the history, culture and character of America's most spectacular destinations. Covering everything there is to see and do as well as choice lodging and dining, these gorgeous full-color guides are perfect for new and longtime residents as well as vacationers who want a deep understanding of the region they're visiting...

National Geographic Guide to National Parks of the Southwest - In-depth coverage and breathtaking images of all the major parks in the region—from Arches to Zion—as well as information about national wildlife refuges, national seashores, forests, preserves, and other scenic areas. Full of suggestions on when to go and what to see and do, the guides also include guided driving tours and hikes, and special features and sidebars on not-to-be-missed flora and fauna, historical sites, and spectacular landscapes...

Frommer's Utah - Will always hold a soft spot in my heart since, years ago, the very first bylined thing I ever wrote for a guidebook, back when I was at the bottom rung of the Frommer's editorial ladder, was a box on the Sundance Film Festival for a much earlier edition of this book. Let Frommer's Utah show you all the sights, from dinosaur fossils and ancient cliff dwellings to Wild West saloons and magnificent Temple Square. Frommer's Utah features an "Active Vacation Planner," showcasing all the sports, daredevil activities, hiking, and camping the state has to offer; complete coverage of the national parks and monuments, including Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Moab, and Arches, plus all the details on some of the nation’s best ski resorts; reviews of lodging in every price range -- from historic B&Bs, to rustic cabins, family-friendly motels, and more...

Off the Beaten Path Utah - Whether you’re a visitor or a local looking for something different, let Utah Off the Beaten Path—written by a Utah native—show you the Beehive State you never knew existed. Pay a visit to Utah’s little-known historic sites and Indian ruins, find the real Big Rock Candy Mountain, hunt for the Fish Lake Ghost, or check out the Thiokol Rocket Display and see examples of rocket motors that sent astronauts into space. So if you’ve “been there, done that” one too many times, get off the main road and venture Off the Beaten Path...

Hidden Utah: Including Salt Lake City, Park City, Moab, Arches, Zion, and Bryce Canyon - Utah-based author Kurt Repanshek leads to local hideaways like Dead Horse Point State Park, an isolated island mesa 6,000 feet above sea level surrounded by cliffs, buttes, and towering spires. His selective recommendations and opinionated reviews lead to pioneer history in Salt Lake City, Olympic ski runs in Park City, and scenic campsites in Canyonlands. Kurt Repanshek lives in Park City, UT. 34 maps are included...

Insight Guide Utah - Utah boasts fantastic national parks, world-renowned skiing, hosts the Sundance Film Festival, and has its share of ghost towns, dude ranches, dinosaur bones, outdoor adventure, wildlife, and gorgeous landscapes...

DeLorme Atlas & Gazeteer state maps - Insanely detailed, frighteningly priced (they list for $19.95, though B&N sells them for $17.95), and worth every penny. Just about every single road, including dirt ones, in each state is not only shown on these maps, but named. Before the advent of GPS, these were the only way to ensure you would never, ever get lost no matter how far off the beaten track you drove. Each atlas covers an individual state in its entirety with detailed, full-color topographic maps. Details include back roads, hidden lakes, boat ramps, hiking trails, campgrounds, public lands, forests, wetlands and more. The Gazetteer sections feature information on places to go and things to do. These atlases are year-round favorites with outdoors enthusiasts and anyone who likes to leave the main roads behind....

National Geographic Guide to Scenic Highways and Byways: The 275 Best Drives in the U.S. - This stunning new edition features unique driving tours through virtually every kind of landscape—spectacular coastlines, mountains, lakes, small towns, ranch and farmlands, islands, bays, and river valleys—in all 50 states. Some of the routes are famous, such as Virginia's Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway, the Natchez Trace, and picturesque sections of the Great River Road. But there are lesser-known drives here too...

National Geographic Guide to America's Hidden Corners - The only overlap between this book and this road trip is the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, but its good coverage of a poorly-covered (and absolutely spectacular) corner of the country, and it's a good book to have on your shelf anyway. Discover 75 of America's best out-of-the-way escapes—from historic small towns and quaint villages to unspoiled coastal regions and remote deserts and mountain ranges. Take the back roads to places nationwide that are well off the tourist routes. You'll uncover hidden corners you didn't know existed...


1000 Places to See in the U.S.A. and Canada Before You Die - My old co-author Patricia Schultz has created a mini-empire out of this series. It's a traveler's life list, a guide, an inspiration, a memory book. Open it to check out where you've been, and where you should go next. What to see and what to do and what to show the kids. Where to eat and where to stay. And how to change your life. Covering the U.S.A. and Canada like never before, here are 1,000 spectacular, compelling, essential, offbeat, utterly unforgettable places...


Guide to Free Campgrounds—West: Includes Campgrounds $12 and Under in the 17 Western States - Updated bi-annually, this book lists all campgrounds in the eastern states that have camping fees of $12 or less. It includes all federal campgrounds as well as state parks and forests, fishing lakes with camping, county and city parks, wildlife areas, Indian reservation sites,utility company camps, lumber camps, canoe camps, and small private campgrounds with low fees.