60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Albuquerque: Including Santa Fe, Mount Taylor, and San Lorenzo Canyon (60 Hikes within 60 Miles) 
Product Description: From the black lava badlands in El Malpais National Monument to the aspen trees in Santa Fe National Forest, the Albuquerque area is filled with beautiful wilderness perfect for exploration. This comprehensive guidebook outlines the level of difficulty for each hike, and includes extensive maps and trail profiles to assist hiking enthusiasts and day-trippers alike. Experience the Rio Grande, old Route 66, ancient pueblos, ghost towns, and other charms of the area with this essential guide.
Customer Ratings: - The best Hiking guide. Love this book as I love little hikes and this sends me off to wonderful places.
- Excellent book. This book is awesome. Trails listed go from urban to wild (no trail). The directions to the trailhead and the description of the trails are very accurate. And the author gives additional information regarding the history, geology, flora and fauna that may be encountered along the way. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves getting out around Albuquerque
- The best hiking book in New Mexico. I have been an avid hiker in New Mexico for the past 7 years, and own every other hiking guide that has been published for the state. This is by far the best one yet.
Though I have hiked all over the Albuquerque area (including all of the Sandia Mountains trails and about half of the Manzano Mountains trails), of the 60 hikes in this guide I have only visited 17 of them to date. I consider this a testament to Stephen Ausherman s skill in locating unique and unknown trails that can be enjoyed by rookies and veterans alike. Reading through this guide, it s almost as if I m about to rediscover Albuquerque.
Probably the best feature, however, is the wealth of at-a-glance detail at the beginning of each hike... including (to name just a few) shared use, driving distance, nearest facilities, and trail traffic -- these features are not typically included in other New Mexico hiking guides. The only complaint I could even attempt to make is that there are no specific details on trail access for pets... but none of the other local guides provide this either.
No veteran New Mexico hiker should be without this guide, and for beginners in the area... this is the first one you should buy.
- 60 hikes near albuquerque. This is a wonderful book with something for anyone that likes to spend time outdoors.
- 2008 s Best Book About New Mexico. Stephen Ausherman s new guidebook, 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Albuquerque, including Santa Fe, Mt. Taylor, and San Lorenzo Canyon, is, without a doubt, my pick for 2008 s Best Book About New Mexico.
I realize that, as I write this, the year has more than eight months left to go, and I m aware that I myself am planning to publish a New Mexico title before the end of the year, but Ausherman s new book is honestly so good, so quirky, so informative, and so unique, that I feel I can go ahead and declare it as the year s best, without hesitation.
The book, as its title suggests, contains sixty hikes, all within about sixty minutes of Albuquerque--within sixty miles of the Big I, where Interstate 40 crosses Interstate 25.
What the title doesn t immediately reveal, however, is just how amazing these sixty hikes are, just how compellingly readable their descriptions are, or just how transformational this book has the potential to be to anyone willing to go out and experience them.
The book s preface lays out the book s contents, and I challenge any resident of central New Mexico--anyone with even a spark of lust for life or a smidgen of curiosity--to read that preface and not feel overwhelmed with a feeling that maybe this place you ve been living has more to it than you thought, in my case, it filled me with an almost caffeinated urge to rush out and see what it described for myself.
The book s sections include:
*The Duke City--featuring urban hikes within Albuquerque s city limits.
*The Salt Mission Trail--venturing down into the Manzano Mountains.
*The Turquoise Trail--heading up into the Sandias and beyond.
*El Camino Real--exploring natural wonders along I-25 toward Santa Fe.
*The City Different--snooping around Santa Fe and its environs.
*The Cuba Road--heading down toward Cuba and Cabezon Peak.
*The Jemez Mountain Trail--finding amazing formations around Los Alamos.
*The Chihuahua Trail--moving through wild desert toward Socorro.
And:
*The Mother Road--following Route 66 from west of town to Mt. Taylor.
Since being introduced to this title, I have already hiked a number of its hikes, and have already found my view of what surrounds Albuquerque completely altered. This place is amazing, and even though I thought I had an inkling of what its deserts and mountains hid, I now realize I did not. At all.
If you live in Albuquerque, just get this. Just order it right now, or go get it from Page One. You will not regret it. It s rare that a guidebook comes along that makes you want to just sit down and read it from cover to cover, but whose hikes are so unique and intriguing that you have little choice but to put the book down and throw on a daypack.
Highly, highly recommended.
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60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Albuquerque: Including Santa Fe, Mount Taylor, and San Lorenzo Canyon (60 Hikes within 60 Miles) (ID: 0897325907)
