Ever wonder where Harry McDonald carved his initials on a tree during the ill fated 1889 Stanton Brown Expedition through Grand Canyon? Did you know about the hike out to the Rim at South Canyon? How about the short hike to the petroglyphs at Tanner, or the location of the water jug filling spot at Phantom Ranch? Do you know there are 3 pull-in spots to access Matkatamiba Canyon? Ever wonder what the hike to Mooney Falls in Havasu is like, or what the winter sun potential at Tuckup is like? Did you know there are some amazing narrows at 193 Mile, or what the summer shade at Parashant is like? Have you seen the Rock Art at 202 Mile, and did you know there's a water source just a few miles downriver from there? 
In DAY HIKES FROM THE RIVER, author, hiker and river runner Tom Martin offers river runners through Grand Canyon National Park the first text on exploring Grand Canyon National Park from the Colorado River. Besides a description of each hike, the text includes the best camps to stage the hike from. Information on winter and summer sun exposure, along with pertinent pull-in information is also provided where needed. Each hike description includes images from USGS topo maps with the hike clearly marked on the map. 
This book is for the river runner who wants to increase their options for activities and gain a greater appreciation of what rafting in Grand Canyon has to offer, besides running great whitewater. This guide identifies many camps that are not listed in any other guidebook. This book is intended to be used by river runners to expand their knowledge base beyond the most heavily visited attraction sites on the river. While this book includes every heavily visited site on the River, it expands river runners options to include 60 other wonderful places to visit in the most Grand of Canyons.

Day Hikes from the River: A Guide to 75 Hikes from Camps on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park

Tom Martin

Vishnu Temple Press

In DAY HIKES FROM THE RIVER SECOND EDITION, author, hiker and river runner Tom Martin offers river runners through Grand Canyon National Park a new text on exploring Grand Canyon National Park from the Colorado River. There are 100 hikes in the book, up from 75 in the first edition. Besides a description of each hike, the text includes the best camps to stage the hike from. Information on winter and summer sun exposure, along with pertinent pull-in information is also provided where needed. Each hike description includes images from USGS topo maps with the hike clearly marked on the map. 
This book is for the river runner who wants to increase their options for activities and gain a greater appreciation of what rafting in Grand Canyon has to offer, besides running great whitewater. This guide identifies many camps that are not listed in any other guidebook. This book is intended to be used by river runners to expand their knowledge base beyond the most heavily visited attraction sites on the river. While this book includes every heavily visited site on the River, it expands river runners options to include lots more wonderful places to visit in the most Grand of Canyons.

Day Hikes from the River: A Guide to 100 Hikes from Camps on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park (2nd Edition)

Sports & Outdoors

Martin, Tom

Hiking & Camping

This is the only book describing the thirty year struggle to gain Wilderness protection for the Grand Canyon. It describes how the Colorado River became the sticking point and the tug-of-war between rafting outfitters and wilderness advocates - with the National Park Service trying to referee. Told from the point of view of the wilderness advocates, it is a source book of information showing how the current situation came to be and what small triumphs have been achieved along the way.

Hijacking a River: A Political History of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon

Jeff Ingram

What Park Rangers really have to deal with in any given day and how training, stamina and attitude make all the difference. Theis book could almost be a reference manual, training tool and recruitment handbook for any one interested in wearing a Smoky Bear hat. The author has lived and worked in parks ranging from USS Arizona in Hawaii to the Florida Everglades with most of her career at Grand Canyon.

Park Ranger True Stories from a Ranger's Career in America's National Parks

Nancy Eileen Muleady-Mecham

This is your complete guide to floating the Grand Canyon! Waterproof book

Guide to the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon; Lees Ferry to South Cove (Second Edition)

Duwain Whitis

In May 2001, Stephen Cole and his brother hiked the Little Colorado River Gorge from the town of Cameron, Arizona to its confluence with the Colorado River, and out by way of the Beamer and Tanner trails in the Grand Canyon. He found the desert landscape so fascinating that he went back later to explore three remote side canyon routes which enter the chasm. There was very little written about the area then so here he shares some of his experiences and thoughts about it. The book is not meant to be a guide although we hope that anyone exploring the Gorge on foot or in an armchair will find it helpful.

Quicksand and Blue Springs: Exploring the Little Colorado River Gorge

Stephen West Cole

Day Hikes from the River Third Edition: 100 Hikes from Camps Along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon

Ann's essays and poems evoke the solitude, beauty and harshness of the remote country along the Escalante River in southern Utah. Her many travels through the country allow her to relax into it and let it speak through her.

Walking the Unknown River and Other Travels in Escalante Country

Walka, Ann Weiler

Do you want a Grand Canyon guidebook written by boaters for boaters? Tom Martin, author of Day Hikes from the River , and Duwain Whitis, publisher of RiverMaps map books, have teamed up to write a new guidebook. This is the only guidebook to the Canyon with USGS topographic map backgrounds printed at their original scale, with additional details in an easy-to-read format. It is also the only guide with maps extending to South Cove in Lake Mead. Each map shows campsite locations, rapids, scout points, river miles, and other points of interest. The accompanying text describes all campsites on the park inventory (and some extras), with campsite pull-in information, geological, botanical, and historical points of interest. Maps are in color. Text and photographs are black and white. The guide is 8.5"x14" spiral-bound to lay flat. The 108 pages are printed on tough waterproof and tear-resistant synthetic paper. The new mileage featured in this edition has been established by the Grand Canyon Research and Monitoring Center, using the most up-to-date measuring techniques. The new mileage deviates from the old by up to a mile in certain areas. Spiralbound waterproof paperback. 108 pages. Scale: 1:24,000 Size: 8.5"x14"

Guide to the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon: From Lees Ferry to South Cove

Do you want a Grand Canyon guidebook written by boaters for boaters? Tom Martin, author of Day Hikes from the River, and Duwain Whitis, publisher of RiverMaps map books, have teamed up to write a new guidebook. This is the only guidebook to the Canyon with USGS topographic map backgrounds printed at their original scale, with additional details in an easy-to-read format. It is also the only guide with maps extending to South Cove in Lake Mead. Each map shows campsite locations, rapids, scout points, river miles, and other points of interest. The accompanying text describes all campsites on the park inventory (and some extras), with campsite pull-in information, geological, botanical, and historical points of interest. Maps are in color. Text and photographs are black and white. The guide is 8.5" x 14" spiral-bound to lay flat. The 108 pages are printed on tough waterproof and tear-resistant synthetic paper. The new mileage featured in this edition has been established by the Grand Canyon Research and Monitoring Center, using the most up-to-date measuring techniques. The new mileage deviates from the old by up to a mile in certain areas. Spiralbound waterproof paperback. Scale: 1:24,000 Size: 8.5" x 14"

NRS River Maps - Grand Canyon

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