A Hiker's Guide to the Northern Plains

by Ken Ludwig

The northern plains offer unique scenery, plants and animals--and the biggest sky you will ever see. Prairie climate and ecology are explored, including highlights and hazards.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550910264
• ISBN13: 9781550910261
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 186 Pages

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See the Big Sky

Minutes after you stop for a free glass of ice water at Wall Drug, in Wall, South Dakota, you can be hiking in Sage Creek Basin, the largest designated prairie wilderness area in the United States.Badlands National Park, which contains Sage Creek Basin, is just one of twenty three major grassland parks in the United States and Canada that Ken Ludwig describes in his nicely designed guidebook.Order a copy today. Its pictures, maps and park descriptions are sure to make you want to see tall bluffs, coulees, rolling grasslands and big sky.