60 Hikes Within 60 Miles Twin Cities: Twin Cities

No more excuses like "there's nowhere to go around here" or "the woods are too far from the city." With 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Twin Cities as your guide, you have dozens of places within an hour's drive where you can hike to your heart's content.60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Twin Cities blows the lid off the myth that you can't have a great hike in your own backyard. The Minneapolis-St. Paul area may be an ever-expanding metropolis, but there are still plenty of superb hiking options: short hikes, long hikes, hikes for kids, urban hikes, wildlife hikes, historic hikes, and many others.Whether you live in Minneapolis, St. Paul, or somewhere nearby, this guide provides the information necessary to choose the perfect day hike, including maps, directions, trail lengths, hiking times, and a wealth of detail about the trails. So lace up those boots, sling on that pack, and hit the trail! (6 x 9, 256 pages, b&w photos, maps)

Tom Watson grew up enjoying Minnesota's great outdoors. He's an active freelance photojournalist with many outdoor articles and photos in national publications to his credit. Besides hiking, he's also an avid sea kayaker. He currently lives, plays and works out of the southeastern Minnesota town of Winona, on the Mississippi River.