Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park: A Back Country Guide

by Jim Dufresne

Book Overview

The Porkies, the beloved mountains of the Midwest, are the scenic and rugged heart of the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. This 60,000-acre park features entire... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882376641
• ISBN13: 9781882376643
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Thunder Bay Press (MI)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Porcuipine Mountains Wilderness State Park: A Backcountry Guide

Great book.It provides a detailed description of the entire park. All the information is very useful.

A SOLID INTRO TO & OVERVIEW OF THE PORKIES...

Jim DuFresne is a poet of the outdoors. It is disconncerting to find writing of this quality, this vitality, in what is essentially a travel book. The section in this book on his encounter with a black bear is just one example. Is this the definitive guide to what are affectionately called "the Porkies?" Not really, but this is a very useful tool in planning a trip there. This book and a good hiking guide--like the Falcon guide to Hiking Michigan--along with some decent topo maps should do the trick. The hiking info is critical, because unless you're just gonna go take a gander at the Lake in the Clouds, you'll be doing some serious hiking in the Porcupine Mountains. This book is great background for some of the things you will see there, but the Falcon guide and the maps really help you plan. I give this book a solid recommendation--with a suggestion to get a good hiking guide & maps.