Flagstaff Hikes

A little trip down to Barnes and Noble Bookstore has yielded enough information for a good start on finding out about local day-trip hiking trails. Materials now in hand:

• Flagstaff Trails Map by Emmitt Barks Cartography


• Street Map of Flagstaff Plus Northern Arizona Rec. (this to replace one with such small print it was useless) by North Star Mapping


• Flagstaff Hikes--97 Day Hikes around Flagstaff, Arizona by Richard & Sherry Mangum

You know that Flagstaff has some of the best hiking trails in the world. You know they're out there, so how to find them? The Mangums have given us the perfect book to help us learn about the ones in and close to Flagstaff. He wrote the text and drew the maps and she took the photographs.

They used an ideal two-page spread layout for each hike, complete with a small detail map and photo. It's all here in a nutshell, directions, driving distance, hike distance, difficulty and rise in elevation. With all the little extra bits of information that only someone who had actually gone on the hikes, Flagstaff Hikes is a keeper.

Flagstaff July 10, 2008