Guide To Moab, UT Backroads & 4-Wheel Drive Trails

Rating:
Summary: The Best Guide of It's Kind
Review: If you're a four-wheeler, the recent explosion of trail guides has got to be making you happy. They offer concise information on some of the best 'wheeling around the country and usually from a useful perspective. Among the writers of those guides, Charles Well's books stand out in the crowd. His Moab guide was the first and one I had the pleasure of reviewing a number of years ago for a magazine. Ever the skeptic, I put this book though it's paces in an area I know well and, dagnabit, I couldn't find a single error! Not only that, I found the book easy to use, well organized and priced right. Wells put everything you need in there, but didn't load it down with glitz to make it cost more. My copy is definitely folded, spindled and mutilated, as well as oil stained. I won't 'wheel Moab without it!

Rating:
Summary: The Best Guide of It's Kind
Review: If you're a four-wheeler, the recent explosion of trail guides has got to be making you happy. They offer concise information on some of the best `wheeling around the country and usually from a useful perspective. Among the writers of those guides, Charles Well's books stand out in the crowd. His Moab guide was the first and one I had the pleasure of reviewing a number of years ago for a magazine. Ever the skeptic, I put this book though it's paces in an area I know well and, dagnabit, I couldn't find a single error! Not only that, I found the book easy to use, well organized and priced right. Wells put everything you need in there, but didn't load it down with glitz to make it cost more. My copy is definitely folded, spindled and mutilated, as well as oil stained. I won't `wheel Moab without it!

Rating:
Summary: Let Charles A. Wells be your guide!
Review: We just did a 3 week loop through Arizona, Utah, and Colorado and used Charles A. Wells books for each of those states for planning and navigation. We were extremely happy with these books as guides as we would have had no idea of were to go wheeling with out them.
Very well written and detailed trail descriptions. The maps and overall layout of the books were very friendly and easy to use especially while on the trail. We tried to hit as many of the authors favorite trails as we could and were not disapointed! We also noticed that the volumes were recognized and apparently respected by local tour guides that we met along the trails - a good sign. Some of the volumes included GPS coordinates which were a helpful reference. A mapping GPS makes a good companion to all of these books as you can match your GPS generated progress to any of the books fine maps.

The only down side as another reviewer pointed out, is that the binding of one or two of the books did give up but only because of its high use/abuse on our 3 week trip - don't let that stop you from buying though. (I'm going to move the pages to a binder)

You will be pleased with your purchase!

Thank you Mr. Wells


Rating:
Summary: Don't go to Moab without it!!!!
Review: You don't know Moab until you've read this book. I have been going to the Moab area for over 10 years. I have been backpacking, biking, and now atv'ing. There are trails that I never even knew existed before-and I'd been there 7 times before I got this book!

The best thing about it: concise, easy-to-read, no-fluff, lots of pictures, and accurate about time, coordinates, and ability needed (I'd gotten a hiking book that wasn't accurate and it turned into a life-threatening situation).

The worst thing about this book: now I have to go out and get a Jeep:-), and the binding is falling apart from all the use and from drooling over the pictures! Maybe the publisher could offer this book on cd to print out the individual trails.

A must have! Looking forward to using this author's book on my home state of Arizona.