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About Discovering Griffith Park: A Local's Guide
Product Description A Los Angeles Times best-seller! People all over the world have seen Los Angeles's famed "Hollywood" sign and the iconic domed Griffith Observatory. Both are part of Griffith Park, a place visited by more than 10 million people each year--more than Yosemite and Grand Canyon National Parks combined. Rugged and vast, the 4,511-acre Griffith Park encompasses a sprawling 70-mile long network of trails, ranging from paved paths through manicured landscapes to challenging ridgeline climbs, and is a destination for hikers, trail runners, cyclists, equestrians, picnickers, and museum-goers. It's a unique outdoor space in a city that is not well known for its outdoor amenities. Discovering Griffith Park uses the park's extensive trail network as an anchor to explore the park in full, whether on foot, wheel, or hoof. Readers will also find out where the best views of the Hollywood sign are, where they can catch free Shakespeare on summer evenings, and how to attend one of the legendary Los Angeles Breakfast Club meetings for good food, good friends, and a bit of early morning learning Review "Griffith Park finally gets the book it deserves." - Los Angeles Times "L.A.'s resident hiking expert Casey Schreiner has a new book all about one of the biggest urban parks in North America, offering Griffith Park veterans like me and rookies a manual for getting to know it better." - A. Martinez from Take Two on KPCC "Hiking enthusiasts and novices alike can thumb through the hiking section for details on each hike, such as miles, elevation gains and views. But this time, Schreiner branched out, incorporating history, ecology and even ghost stories in a breezy, informative style." - Los Angeles Daily News "Three years ago, Casey Schreiner released the definitive guide to hiking in and around Los Angeles. Now the author of Day Hiking: Los Angeles and founder of the website Modern Hiker is back with a in-depth guide to one of the city's treasures. Discovering Griffith Park: A Local's Guide ... is, surprisingly enough, the first guide to the 124-year-old, 4,300-plus-acre Los Angeles institution." - Los Angeles Magazine "The hiking route descriptions, however, are only half the content of Schreiner's excellent guidebook. The other half is devoted to just about everything else you would want or need to know about the park, ranging from the obvious (Hollywood Sign, Observatory, Autry Museum, Greek Theater, Zoo, and Travel Town) to the nuanced (Joe Klass Water Stop, Griffith Park Tea House, and the long-gone beacon of Beacon Hill). If it is a feature of Griffith Park, big or small, this book describes it in detail, and well." - Larchmont Chronicle "A comprehensive collection of 33 hiking and biking trails, safety tips for avoiding poison oak as well as tactics for encounters with coyotes, rattlesnakes and P22, alongside a history -- both factual and folkloric -- that goes back to the Tongva tribe that called it home long before Spaniards and Anglos took control. It is the first book of its kind, a rather impressive fact given the Park's age and popularity: it attracts 10 million visitors annually." - Inside Hook About the Author Casey Schreiner is the founder and editor in chief of ModernHiker.com, the most-read hiking blog on the West Coast, where he encourages city-dwellers to explore the parks, open spaces, and wilderness areas that are often right in their backyards. He is also the author of Day Hiking: Los Angeles (Mountaineers Books, 2016), focused on 125 hikes around one of the country’s largest cities. Casey has been featured in national media for his reporting work uncovering outdoor vandals via social media, and he also works as an award-winning television writer, producer, and on-air personality. He lives in Los Angeles. Visit him online at ModernHiker.com and on Instagram and Facebook @modernhiker.
