Appalachian Trail Guide To New York New Jersey

Download or read book Appalachian Trail Guide to New York-New Jersey written by Daniel D. Chazin and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of a guidebook and two detached, double-sided maps (in a display box) for 172 miles of the Appalachian Trail, from Kent, Connecticut, to Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area on the Pennsylvania/New Jersey border. The indexed book contains "omnidirectional" trail descriptions, natural and cultural history of the areas crossed, and information on road crossings, parking, shelters, water sources, points of interest, and general advice. The six-color mapsredone from scratch for this edition, using state-of-the-art GIS materials as the starting pointcover about 40 miles per side. The scale is an inch to a mile, with 50-foot contour intervals for the topography and the essential elevation profiles for the trail route.