Appalachian Trail Guide to New York-New Jersey - Softcover

Consists of a guidebook and two detached, double-sided maps (in a display box) for 172 miles of the Appalachian Trail, from Kent, Connecticut, to Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area on the Pennsylvania/New Jersey border.The indexed book contains omnidirectional trail descriptions, natural and cultural history of the areas crossed, and information on road crossings, parking, shelters, water sources, points of interest, and general advice. The six-color maps-redone from scratch for this edition, using state-of-the-art GIS materials as the starting point-cover about 40 miles per side. The scale is an inch to a mile, with 50-foot contour intervals for the topography and the essential elevation profiles for the trail route.

Daniel Chazin, an attorney and longtime volunteer/editor with the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, has been the editor of the annual A.T. Data Book since 1983. He also is the editor of the Appalachian Trail Guide to New York-New Jersey and chair of the publications committee of the NY-NJ Trail Conference.

A lawyer and longtime author for, and official of, the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, Mr. Chazin has edited the Appalachian Trail Data Book since 1983.