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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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