Lonely Planet Arizona New Mexico & the Grand Canyon Trips (Regional Guide)
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58 of the Region’s Best Trips!
Whether you’re a local looking for a long weekend escape, a visitor looking to explore or you simply need some ideas when family and friends come to visit, Lonely Planet’s Trips series offers the best itineraries – and makes it easy to plan the perfect trip time and again.
Theme icons make finding the perfect trip simple – no matter what your interest
Easy-to-use maps for every trip, plus driving times and directions
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J. Paulsonn says:
Do people plan vacations by “theme”?,
Most travel guides organize their information geographically. This one takes a different tack and attempts to organize trips by theme. As much as I normally like Lonely Planet guides, this one does not work for me. I toured Arizona with this book in tow, and found the information frustratingly superficial, scattered, and unfocused. A paragraph on Sedona, AZ may be followed by one for Phoenix (100+ miles away) followed by one on Tucson (another 100+ miles). This book jumps around a LOT. Do people really plan vacations by “theme”?
If I’m in an area, say just south of Phoenix, I want to be able to look in a guidebook and find interesting places to visit in that vicinity. This is the way most travel guides are organized, and rightly so. This book will be of little help for that kind of reference.
Sure, this book can be an entertaining read–but it is more suitable for armchair travel and trip planning than take-along reference. Besides, one of the joys of travel is variety–how many people really want to base a tour of the Southwest solely on beers, green chilies, or the margarita? This book even tells you what music to play in your car as you travel Route 66–what happened to spontaneity and travel serendipity?
Still, there are some useful tours: the chapter on the Rim-to-Rim hike through the Grand Canyon makes sense. The “48 Hours in Greater Phoenix” tour is similarly focused. I should also point out some rather courageous coverage of polygamist Mormon sects in southern Utah. These particular chapters succeed because they are more geographically centered than the scattershot theme tours.
If you like the idea of taking a trip based on one theme, buy it, but there are much better guides out there for real reference.
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|Gabrielle Durana "GD" says:
Disappointing,
I bought this guide not knowing the Sedona and Grand Canyon areas I was going to visit. I did not find it useful to plan ahead because it was too elusive. After visiting the places, I find it’s also too superficial and not so well researched. This guide only can work if you know enough of the places and are only looking for an itinerary. So in fact you need too guides, this one and a second one that explains to you what to do and what you are looking at once you get there. How many guides does it take to travel? This one is one too many.
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|Judy Smith "judylynnsbooks" says:
Do you like short, planned trips? This book is for you!,
I like this series because it tells you the most interesting places to see on your trip and because most of trips just last 2 or 3 days. There are some for a week or more, but it’s great for seeing your own state at your own leisure also.
It has 58 themed itineraries and 1005 local places to see in Arizona, New Mexico and the Grand Canyon plus trips to Utah, Colorado and Las Vegas.
Some of the Iconic trips include the Four Corners Cruise, Motoring the Mother Road (Rte 66), Rafting the Colorado, A Green Chile Adventure, Gunfighters and Gold Miners, Rim to Rim Canyon Hike, Dam Diving, In Search of Georgia O’Keefe, Billy the Kid Byway, Southwest by Train.
Some of Route trips include the Fantastic Canyon Voyage, Trail of the Ancients, Ice Caves and Wolf Dens on Highway 53, Fiber Arts Trail, High Road and Low Road, Following the Turquoise Trail, Geronimo Trail Scenic Highway.
Food and Drink Lovers tours include: Steak Lovers Arizona, Grapes & Hops in the Desert, Brewpub Crawl, Organic New Mexico, Margarita Marathon, New Mexico’s Wine Countries.
Outdoors types will enjoy the tours of Monument Valley, Rim Country, Desert Wanderings, Sedona’s Red Rock Adventure, Flagstaff’s Northern Playground, Hiking in Grand Canyon, Water Rafting and fishing the Rio Grande, Utah’s National Park plus much more.
There are the History and Cultural Tours like Arizona Architecture, Pueblo Life, In the Footsteps of DH Lawrence, A Geology Expedition and more.
There are some offbeat trips listed like Big Skies & Weird Science, Into the Vortex, Polgamy Country, Albuquirky, Out of this World, Cowboy Time.
If you are the city type there is 48 hour trips planned out for what to do in Greater Phoenix, Las Vegas and Santa Fe.
It gives a lot of website addresses for you to go to in each section so you can get familiar ahead of time with what you are going to see. Lots of little tidbits also listed to grab your interest. I love this series and will use it much more than just a regular guidebook.
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