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Product details Paperback 240 pages Publisher Firefly Books (August 9, 2012) Language English ISBN-10 1554079861

Waterfalls of New York State Scott Ensminger David Schryver Edward Smathers 9781554079865 Books Reviews

• I recently returned from a waterfall getaway weekend to New York. This book was excellent in deciding which general area I wanted to go too and also several of the specific wateralls or "glens" with waterfalls. The descriptions were good, for the most part, and the pictures let you visualize the waterfalls.
  
  So, that is the positive. The negative is in the detail. Namely, maps and directions. A map showing how to get to the waterfalls for each area would have been very helpful in addition to the general description. I, personally, find maps more easy to understand than descriptions. Also, the directions were sometimes excellent, but sometimes convoluted or only good if starting at a specific location. Again, a map would have helped with the directions if they included a cross street to enter into a GPS.
  
  Overall, if you are not familiar with Waterfalls in New York, which I wasn't, this book was excellent in helping me decide that I wanted to make a trip here and that I wanted to go to the Ithaca region. It was also very helpful in selecting which specific waterfalls I would hike into. But once we got to Ithaca and were actually going to the areas with waterfalls, my friend and I primarily used another book that included maps to each waterfall.
• Let me start by stating what this book is not. It's not a book, which covers all the waterfalls in NY. It doesn't cover even 1/50s of the waterfalls in NY. For that you need to go to the web sites (including the ones made by the authors of this book) and/or buy Scott E. Brown's "New York Waterfalls A Guide for Hikers and Photographers". This book's goal is to show only the main waterfalls of the state and provide their photos and good descriptions. Each photo covers the full page and is amazing. One can learn how to photograph falls from them! Highly recommend!
• Decent photos and good descriptions of the falls. Many of the photos were taken during periods of low water so were not as appealing but I think the purpose of the book is not to entertain you but to help you go out and see them for yourself. Maps are helpful for general locations but not so much for exact locations. There are specific directions but personally I find a small detailed map to be helpful.
  Something I didn't like or understand is that they broke up the state into 6 regions but only covered 5 of them.
• Great book; what a nice way to see various falls in NYS; who knew there were so many,
  It makes a great armchair travel log or it can be used a a trip planning book.
  Photos are great; that is; beautiful.
  The description are very helpful as well. The descriptions give good directs ( I hope) to locating each fall by car and then gives detailed information about how long of a walk or hike it would be from parking spot to the actual falls.
  Worth the money. Could be a good "coffee table" book over the "holidays". Our local library featured it and I'm glad they did.
• I like the book is separated by geographic area. I don’t like that some great waterfalls are left out. This is definitely for informational use and it’s not a coffee table book.
• Wonderful book. It includes some old photos which show what some of the falls looked like around 1900, but not today. The photo on the cover shows the walkways through Watkins Glen; my grandfather did the survey work to design those walkways.
• I have nothing bad to say about this book except I wish everything was written and laid out like this - ie hiking trails. It has just enough of the important history, a full page photo, maps, walking times, general waterfall information and breaks it out into regions instead of alphabetical so you can easily assess what's in the area without a lot of flipping around. Love love love it! In fact I had to buy another one because my visiting friend stole my copy ;)
• Really enjoy the color photos by Ed Smathers.