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Old September 24th, 2003, 07:23 PM
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Default Best Guide Book for California

I am looking for the best guide book available for California, I'm
looking for the most detailed book on California, one that doesn't miss
anything. I hate guidebooks that many pictures but miss a lot of places
and things to do, or guide books that focus on where to eat or sleep and
miss a lot of California itself. There is hundreds of guides on
California, from some of the ones I've run into the one that seems the
best is the Moon guidebook series, all together they number 1670 pages on
California ( Moons Coastal guide is included in the Northern and Southern
Cailfornia).

The most detailed and comprehensive guide I've found yet on natural
coastal California is the California Coastal Access Guide by the
California Coastal Commission, it numbers 304 pages but is a big book and
covers everything. I haven't found a book yet for all of natural
California yet.

I also have the Lonely Planet California/Nevada guide book with 816 pages
devoted to California, the most pages for a single volume book on
California, but is misses a lot of things the Moon guide does not.

The Guide book with the most pages for southern California is the Open
Road guide book, but they dont have a guide book for northern California
so they are incomplete.

Does nayone know of a guide with better coverage than Moon? Here is a
list of some guide books and their page counts:

Moon Guidebook Southern CA 750 pages
Moon Guidebook Northern CA 920 pages
Moon Guidebook Coastal California (1st Ed.) 635 pages

AAA Barrier-Free Travel California 144 pages
AAA Essential Guide: California 126 pages
AAA Spiral Guide to California 208 pages

The California Coastal Resource Guide by California Coastal Commission
384 pages, Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x 12.00 x 9.25
California Coastal Access Guide by California Coastal Commission
(California Coastal Access Guide, 6th Ed) 304 pages

Baedeker's California 488 pages

Best Places Northern California: The Best Restaurants, Lodgings and
Touring 548 pages
Best Places Southern California: The Best Restaurants, Lodgings and
Touring 492 pages

Best Places Destinations - Central California Coast 212 pages
Best Places Destinations - Northern California Coast 216 pages

Inside Out Northern California (Best Places Guide to the Outdoors) 688
pages

Essential California (Essential Travel Guide Series) 128 pages

Eyewitness Travel Guides California 630 pages
Eyewitness Travel Guides Northern California 312 pages

Fodor's 2003 California 688 pages

Frommer's California 2003 736 pages

California Travel Guide by Globetrotter 128 pages

Michelin Green Guide California 400 pages

Hidden Northern California 10 Ed 520 pages
Hidden Southern California 8 ed 560 pages
Hidden Coast of California 576 pages

Insight Guide California 400 pages
Insight Guide Southern California 350 pages
Insight Guide Northern California ?

Knopf Guide California 360 pages

Let's Go 2003: California 592 pages
Let's Go 2004: California 608 pages

Lonely Planet: California, 3rd Edition 736 pages
Lonely Planet: California and Nevada 2nd edition 936 pages - With 816
pages devoted to California
Lonely Planet Coastal California 224 pages

Is Lonely Planet eliminating some of it's coverage of California? The 3rd
edition is less pages than it's 2nd edition.

National Geographic Traveler California 400 pages

Northern California Off the Beaten Path, 5th: A Guide to Unique Places
224 pages
Southern California Off the Beaten Path, 5th: A Guide to Unique Places
256 pages

Open Road Southern California 768 pages

California Trip Planner & Guide (Passport Books) 272 pages

Rough Guide to California 750 pages

Travel Smart: Northern California (3rd Ed) 265 pages
Travel Smart: Southern California 240 pages
 




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