Mojave Desert Trails

Crossing the Mojave Desert with my Jeep on the Government Road trail is on my bucket list. This book points out several points of interest and other important considerations. I plan to get more information before leaving, but this book certainly intrigued my interest and desire to head out on an adventure.

I have spent many months of my life exploring the great Mojave Desert, from the time that I was 10 years old and visited the Province Mt. area via a 1950 Chevy wagon. From that time on I have taken trips through a vast amount of the Desert. It is truly an amazing place.

The mapes in the book are good. The write-up are in good also. I will fine good use of this book. (will stay in the truck all the time)

Not enough information on how to use the trails, useless.

Excellent purchase.

Great photos and directions for exploring those fast-disappearing places! Go this fall before another housing tract covers something else and it's lost forever.

There are a lot of good ideas here, each of which is given a page and a half, plus driving directions. Unfortunately the editing is sloppy throughout: You'll be reading along, happily fantasizing about some desert destination, and come across a clunker of a misplaced word or phrase that makes you wonder if anyone read the author's words before slapping them into a book.There are also a few very basic maps that more or less cover the spots mentioned, but again no one took a look at the whole package before putting the book into print. The maps are sprinkled around in a way that must have pleased someone, and some of them even have helpful numbers attached to each destination. Unfortunately these numbers don't match anything else in the book -- they're never referred to again.Sloppy editing and presentation aside, there's plenty here for the price, including a B&W photo for each destination and some color ones on the cover. And there's even an index, which is a great touch. When all's said and done, I'm going to buy Lawlor's "Out from Las Vegas" next; her love for the desert shines through it all.