River Guide to Canyonlands National Park and Vicinity

If you plan a float trip on the Green River (Motor Propelled Boats Are Forbidden) this is the book you want to have to make your stops more interesting.

Good information for planning a canoe trip thru Labyrinth Canyon.

It was in the condition that was advertised

More of a history of local white settlers than anything else, not a river guide. Good primary info and letters so will be good for historians. Not so great for navigation or earlier history. Too much info for use as navigation or for just exploring.

This book is like a long, run-on sentence, squashed together as tightly as possible. I purchased the book for an upcoming Green River trip, hoping it would contain the essential information that one finds in most river guides-- where to camp, where are the best hikes, where to find water sources (the river itself is extremely silty). The information is in the book, but good luck finding it, as it is embedded in text which is primarily composed of vignettes about the history of the river. There are campsite (but not hike or water) symbols on the map, but finding the descriptive text that corresponds to these symbols is a chore. There is no index in the book, and no lists of campsites, hikes or anything else other than a very unhelpful table of contents. And the format of the book is the worst I have ever seen, even for a self-published book. The font is extremely small, and the minimal white space between lines makes it all visually crammed together and thus a strain to read. A better designed and edited book would make key information much easier to extract--hopefully in the next edition.

The layout is absolutely horrible. It is a real struggle to actually read this book. If, and when you do, it is chock-full of interesting details about the heritage of the Green and Colorado Rivers. The hand-drawn maps reference mileage on the river, and have detail not found on regular tops, or in Belknaps. But the layout is SO HORRIBLE, that it puts many people off. It does pack a lot into a tiny little space. You will either love it, or hate it. Please, please, revise the layout. I would buy it again.

I'm torn. The author is very thorough. No doubt about it. But the design is painfully bad, and by that I mean an impediment. Navigating this book, and everything by this author, is a painful process. Every page is so dense and tight that you'll find yourself using your finger to keep track of what line you're on. Thoroughly exhausting! But if you are in the market for the details covered, they are all there. I will say that it is a bit disproportionately focused on recent white history involving ranchers and the like and a little thin on the millennia before that.

Incredibly dense and poorly written with way too many historical citations and references to "the author's" personal, boring experiences. The maps are incomprehensible and the descriptions of hikes, trails, ruins, etc are stupefying and stupid. Good for fire starter though.

The font used in this guide book is so small and squished together that it makes it a tedious read. If it were not for the fact that it is pretty much the only guide book available for the Green River, I would say don't bother buying it. Thorough information and interesting as well.