DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Southwest USA and National Parks

by D.K. Publishing

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Southwest USA & National Parks will lead you straight to the best attractions the region has to offer.

Whether you're taking in the views at the Grand Canyon, gambling in Las Vegas, or enjoying the hot pools at Jemez Springs, this in-depth guidebook provides all the travel information you need. It covers the major areas from Utah, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque to Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Arizona, and explores the region's culture, history, national parks, architecture, entertainment, shopping, tours, and scenic walks.

Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Southwest USA & National Parks .

- Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss" destination highlights at a glance.
- Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of important sights.
- Floor plans and guided visitor information for major museums.
- Guided walking tours, local drink and dining specialties to try, things to do, and places to eat, drink, and shop by area.
- Area maps marked with sights and restaurants.
- Insights into history and culture to help you understand the stories behind the sights.
- Suggested day trips and itineraries to explore beyond the cities and towns.
- Hotel and restaurant listings highlight DK Choice special recommendations.
With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Southwest USA & National Parks truly shows you this region as no one else can.

Series Overview: For more than two decades, DK Eyewitness Travel Guides have helped travelers experience the world through the history, art, architecture, and culture of their destinations. Expert travel writers and researchers provide independent editorial advice, recommendations, and reviews. With guidebooks to hundreds of places around the globe available in print and digital formats, DK Eyewitness Travel Guides show travelers how they can discover more.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guides: the most maps, photographs, and illustrations of any guide.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Reference

304 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2010

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[carl theaker · Rating 2 out of 5]

This guide provides a touch of information on a wide variety of locations so it would be most helpful if you were new to the area. There are a few restaurants and hotels suggested, but not a list for each town or even area, so just a kind of highlights reel. It’s a good overview introduction, but not that useful for in depth planning of a trip.

[Diana Lebeaux · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a useful starting place for my family as we plan a trip to the southwest next spring. Although I would like more detail about specific locations (cities, specific parks, must see things) and specific pointers around ages and ability levels, I will say that the more broad info this book provided works well as a first read on the region.

[Jennifer · Rating 2 out of 5]

Amazing color photos. Includes a pull-out map. Lots of info-graphics. maps and lovely photos but not a lot of information. For example the city of St George, the main gateway city to the big National Park's has only one entry.

[Mskychick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quick overview of things to do in the Southwest with superficial and limited treatment of items.
Nothing new or unusual that I found.
I do like the general Southwest overview at the beginning of the book.

[Kris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Typical DK book- fun to look at glossy pictures and read captions and headings for quick overview of areas.

[Robin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Lots of racist text regarding native peoples

[Richard Edwards · Rating 5 out of 5]

After the Moon travel books this is a great travel book to plan a trip. I especially enjoy the pictures.

[Morris Yen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quite a packed book...a lot of information
Good selection of pictures, as always

[Kathleen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had the 2021 version and it is so well laid out and summarized for anyone traveling to the area. Buy this book.

[Kim Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book provided the inspiration for our vacation. Very informative. Plan to take it on our trip. Worth giving up the space in my luggage.

[Anice Roberts · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great pictures and nice information

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great travel book series.

[Shreyas]

Close dive into parks in Utah, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas. Good for planning out drives and trips through the Southwest.

[Teresa · Rating 3 out of 5]

This guide book was helpful in giving me an idea of what was out there and what areas I would like to stop and see. It was not good for the smaller things to see. The what else is there stuff. But it was very good to get me to define the vacation and the time I would spend at each location. Other guide books will take over from there.

[LA Gibson · Rating 3 out of 5]

2022 Book #31

DK Eyewitness Southwest USA and National Parks Travel Guide (2019)
⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3/5)

A quick overview of the main sights and NPs in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, & Utah. Includes small maps, history, and photos. Research for the upcoming trip - there's something about holding a guidebook in my hands that I love.

[Alyssa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice photos but not enough detail to help you plan a trip.

[Maria Rosales · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is a good look through when looking for future looking spots to hangout.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

We checked this book out because we know this series has great photos. For our trip, it turned out to be less useful though than our lonely planet books, because of the lack of detail.