Adirondack Waterfall Guide: New York's Cool Cascades

Do you like to read? Do you like pictures? Do you like stories of cool waterfalls? If you don't, don't buy this book. If you do.....well......you know.

This is a great book for weekend drives. Whenever we go for a drive I check to see if we are near any waterfalls and stop to see them.

I bring this with me hiking and try to visit at least one of them everytime. A great guide that is an invaluable tool for any hiker in the Adirondacks area.

ok book for finding waterfalls but I like color. It gets you to the spot but it is hard to judge whether you really want to go there or not since the inferior B&W pics do not show the true story. I know, the book would be more expensive in color but I'd pay it. My only complaint. Other than that, worth the price.

It's a good guide

great for peak baggers, shorter trips

This is a useful guide for locating the relevant waterfalls, and overall it served its intended purpose of helping this out-of-towner visit them. The back of the book includes an alphabetical listing, end notes and a lengthy bibliography.I have two non-trivial complaints and an opportunity missed:1) The pictures are generally poor - and those are the good ones. Most of them are downright terrible. At best they seem to be the result of low budget printing. At worst they look like antique newspaper shots that are crudely photocopied.2) The critically important map in the front that shows all the waterfalls doesn't easily cross-reference to the table of contents. Instead, the numbered dots on the map correlate to a list of the falls' names, but not the page # where the description begins. To get that, you must cross-reference a waterfall's name with the table of contents. It would be much simpler to just include the map's numbers as part of the table of contents' listing. After a while I gave up searching the names and hand-wrote the map reference # next to every waterfall in the table of contents.3) An opportunity for improvement would be a classification system (ie 1-5 stars, w/ 5 stars being amazing) that rates the falls' beauty/impressiveness and difficulty to reach. I've seen this in other guidebooks and it's very helpful to someone not familiar w/ the area.

This guide is helpful, but hard to just pick up and find where you might want to go in a short amount of time.

all good