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An Insider's Guide to the North, Middle and South Forks of the American River and Canyons
$30.00 - Price includes sales tax and shipping
 
An Insider's Guide to the North, Middle and South Forks of the American River and Canyons
Published by Protect American River Canyons


Click here to see more about the Guide book.

This thoroughly researched guide provides a wealth of knowledge for exploring and appreciating the American River canyons. Filled with insider secrets on where to go, how to get there, when to visit and what treasures to look for, this guide invites you to come and explore the easily accessible wilderness of the Auburn State Recreation Area no matter what your age, interests or abilities.

Thanks to all our river friends for their patience while dedicated volunteers researched and rewrote the original AR Guidebook over the last 3 years.


416 pages
 

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$15.00 - Price includes sales tax and shipping
American River Trails Bandana Map

The new updated American River Trails Bandana Map featuring the popular trails in the Cool, China Bar and Confluence Areas is an important hip pocket addition for all that enjoy these outstanding trails in the Auburn and Cool areas. Designed by Kathy Trauman of Cool Trails Maps in collaboration with PARC, the easy to use map highlights the Wendell T. Robie, Western States and Olmstead Trails. It is an essential guide to help untangle the labyrinth of connector trails including some obscure historic routes used by gold miners and homesteaders. Bandana size is 22" x 22". It is screen printed on 100% cotton.
 

Auburn State Recreation Area Trails and River Map
Two versions of the map are available. Choose below.
Prices include sales tax and shipping:
Paper version: $6.50 -
Waterproof version: $9.50 -

Auburn State Recreation Area Trails and River Map

PARC's new easy to read full color 20" x 28" American River Trails and River Map is an essential guide to the popular and lesser known North & Middle Fork trails in the Auburn State Recreation Area. Mystic Design's Laurel Mathe illustrated this map that features a comprehensive legend key to roads, trails and museums, whitewater boating information, campground information, useful park visitor information and regulations, Native American and Gold Rush history, trail tips, visitor resource contact information and resource guides and a river-canyon ecology profile. PARC's proposed California Wild & Scenic designation for a sixteen mile stretch of North Fork American River is highlighted. Finally, the map is sprinkled with flora and fauna illustrations from Law's "Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada".

Here is a low-resolution image of this map.

American River Confluence Parkway Map
$15.00 - Price includes sales tax and shipping
North Fork Trails - Hiking Trails of the North Fork American Canyon
by Ron Gould


Ron Gould's trail guide to the North Fork American River trails from the Sierra Foothills to the Pacific Crest provides accurate trail access information and descriptions. For those seeking to explore the wild and scenic beauty and colorful mining history of the canyon or to walk on paths first used by Native American's migrating seasonally back and forth over the Sierra, this is an essential guidebook. Many obscure trails are included in the guide to encourage maintenance so that they are not lost to time!

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$15.00 - Price includes sales tax and shipping
Georgetown Hiking Trails: Trying to get lost off the Divide
Written and Illustrated by Tom Petersen
80 pages


Your guide to the best hiking near the Georgetown Divide. From Cool to the Desolation Wilderness. 42 hikes, 6 hiking areas, and 27 maps. with historical information, trail descriptions, and hiking tips.

Printed by Get Off Your Gass! Proceeds from this book are used to help maintain our local trails and keep them safe and available for eveyone to enjoy.



American River Confluence Parkway Map
$35.00 - Price includes sales tax and shipping
The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada
Written and Illustrated by John Muir Laws
368 pages


Heyday Books introduces the new Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada. John Muir Laws brings to life the astonishing natural diversity of the "Range of Light" in this comprehensive 368 page guide book with 2,800 watercolor illustrations. Designed for quick and easy field use this richly illustrated guide covers Sierra trees, wildflowers, ferns, fungi, lichens, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals, insects, other small animals, stars and weather. It is intuitively organized using color tabs and simple keys. The book is the product of six years of intensive fieldwork, research, painting and field-testing in collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences. 

American River Confluence Parkway Map
$35.00 - Price includes sales tax and shipping
Wildflowers of Nevada and Placer Counties, California
by the Redbud Chapter of California Native Plant Society


From the Great Valley grasslands to the rocky mountain peaks, northern Sierra Nevada wildflowers enchant all who stop to enjoy these gifts of nature. This versaltile new guide describes 520 species of wildflowers found in Nevada and Placer Counties, illustrating the plants and their diverse habitats with over 600 color photographs. Useful well beyond this two-county region, the area's complete plant checklist inludes 38 percent of the plants known to grow wild in California. Casual wanderers and avid botanists will appreciate the thorough plant descriptions, organization by plant families, Native American uses, and tips on places to see wildflowers.

Plus, look for wildflowers along 21 of the most accessible trails in Placer and Nevada Counties - driving distances and GPS coordinates included.


American River Confluence Parkway Map
$42.00 - Price includes sales tax and shipping
Trees and Shrubs of Nevada and Placer Counties, California
by the Redbud Chapter of California Native Plant Society


Describes and illustrates with color photos over 200 species of trees, shrubs and woody vines growing in Nevada and Placer Counties - a small but widely-diverse segment of California rising in elevation from valley grasslands and foothill woodlands up through mountain meadows and conifer forests to the east side of the Sierra Nevada. Useful to backyard observers and casual hikers, as well as serious students and knowledgeable native plant enthusiasts.

A versatile and accessible guide with clear botanical descriptions, anecdotes for the curious, reference to insects and wildlife, and a list of places to see trees and shrubs of all varieties.

Published 2014 by the Redbud Chapter of the California Native Plant Society and CNPS Press.


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$42.00 - Price includes sales tax and shipping
The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling
Written and Illustrated by John Muir Laws
Gold Medal, 2016 INDIES Book Awards

In straight forward text complimented by step-by-step illustrations, dozens of exercises lead the hand and mind through creating accurate reproductions of plants and animals as well as landscapes, skies and more. Laws provides clear, practical advice for every step of the process for artists at every level from the basics of choosing supplies to advanced techniques.

Paperback 8.5 X 11, 312 pages, 2016


American River Confluence Parkway Map
Out of Stock
American River Canyon Hikes
Practical Guides to Trails in the Canyons of the North and Middle Forks American River


by Jim Ferris, Michael Lynch, and Sheila Toner
Revised and Expanded Editon, published July 2007 by
Auburn State Recreation Area Canyon Keepers
68 pages


Practical trail guides for bikers, equestrians, and hikers. This book makes quick work of selecting and finding enjoyable trails in the spectacular American River canyons near Auburn.

The book includes 24 trail guides, and a convenient index to facilitate selecting an apporpriate trail based on designated usage (biking, hiking, or equestrian), locations, distance and difficulty rating. Specific directions to trailheads and trailhead parking as well as what you may expect to encounter along the trail. Also included is a description of the self-guided Confluence Interpretive Trail, which reveals a wealth of information about the history, geology and vegetation of the incredibly diverse confluence area.
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We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

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