Yellowstone Treasures: The Traveler's Companion to the National Park

With photographs, maps and descriptions it truly is a complete book on Yellowstone. The layout is section by section so will be easy to find sights along each road

Outstanding as a step-by-step guide to the park and its history. Indispensable, useful and a fascinating read.

This is as good as a comprehensive guide to a national park could be. It truly has everything. There are hundreds of beautiful color photographs, excellent maps, detailed descriptions of all of the park's ecological, geological, historical, and cultural features, all held together by an erudite and concise narrative that has been refined over six editions. It really is excellent.Those of you familiar with other main-stream travel guide brands are going to notice something different about this book: The emphasis is on the park itself, not on the infrastructure that feeds the park. There are beautiful write-ups on all of the geophysical features of the park, but not so much on the hotels and restaurants in Jackson or Bozeman. That said, everything within the park's boundaries is thoroughly covered, including its various and lovely "villages." There are truly excellent sections and sidebars dedicated to the science behind so many of the things you will see, and the book does an excellent job sorting and indexing all the sites by every imaginable criteria.This book is really like having your own dedicated National Park Ranger as a tour guide. It's that good.The book does include Grand Teton National Park too, just not at the same level of detail as Yellowstone.If you're interested in Yellowstone and you find yourself here, by all means buy this book.

In my mind the essential titles for planning a Yellowstone itinerary can be ranked in this way 10,000 foot Moon Moon Yellowstone & Grand Teton 1,000 Foot Chapple - Yellowstone Treasures 100 Feet Bohannan - Yellowstone MilepostsAnd if I could only buy one title it would be Bohannon although my only regret it is only available in paper. It really needs to be electronic. I thoroughly appreciate Chapple with the difference being the level of detail in the former. Both could serve the purpose of planning a journey well while Moon does have information about Grand Teton and if you had to have both in one this would work.Janet Chapple’s is Yellowstone Treasures: The Traveler's Companion to the National Park [Kindle Edition] was recommended by almost everyone. I got the Kindle edition (if only the rest of the reference tools had this option !) TThe introduction starts with an overview of the park roads but also includes Best Sights of Yellowstone, Driving Distances and a Key to the Symbols Used. It is followed by Key to the Approach Roads highlighting sights on the roads to the park. There are numerous maps and illustrations throughout the work, something not included in Bohannan.The meat of the work is the Road Logs and Destinations giving a mile by mile, attraction by attraction passage de park. Some of the descriptions go on for more than a page often highlighting the geology or history of a location. Where appropriate the standard symbols for amenities appear. Photographs often appear and although they are not awesome examples they adequately convey the scene.Natural and Human History is a fairly thorough overview of the Geology, a Chronology Since 1800 and Living Things: a Yellowstone Sampler. The later describes from microbes to bears and a tons of flowers to be encountered. Travel Tips is an alphabetically arranged from accessibility to winter visits. The oThere is also a a wonderful bibliography that is a gold mine. It lead me to many of the older works I was totally unaware. Perhaps something a librarian would worry about, but the Index is awesome.

This book is awesome! Visiting Yellowstone in June for the first time and was feeling overwhelmed trying to decide how to experience the vast park. This book details the sites throughout the park by segment in a very organized fashion. It also provides history and education to enhance your experience. We are now confident we will use our time efficiently at Yellowstone.

Thank you for writing this beautiful book! I am so glad I came across recommendations for it. After slogging through another super dry guide, I am delighted to have this book on our journey. The beauty and appreciation of the park are palpable in its pages.

this book it brilliant, I spent almost as much time reading it as I did looking at bears.... perfect travelling companion, won't talk back or stink the car out when its freezing outside and you can't have the windows open.

Lots of detail and peripheral information, but it's a weighty tome for its ~400 pages. If Yellowstone was the sole destination of your holiday this book would provide the requisite chapter and verse. But for 3/4 days out of a road trip, the detail is a tad overweight.

This book was very helpful in planning my trip and had lots of great information. Well written and organized.

Good book very nice picturesWould be nice if it had day tour routes included

Great book as you drive around Yellowstone