Five-Star Trails: Ann Arbor and Detroit: Your Guide to the Area's Most Beautiful Hikes

This guide leads readers to explore the urban parks, lovely woods, fields of wildflowers, and longer trails through densely wooded hills of southeast Michigan.

Author: Greg Tasker
Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
Published: 07/19/2011
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.07w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780897329521

About the Author
A Detroit-based journalist, Greg Tasker is currently the Assistant News Editor and Drive Editor at The Detroit News. He first became passionate about hiking while living in Pennsylvania and Maryland and has written hiking stories for Backpacker, AMC Outdoors, Scouting, France Today, Vermont Life, and other publications. He has hiked sections of the Appalachian Trail up and down the East Coast. He also has written winter sports stories--on topics that include cross-country and downhill skiing and snowshoeing--for the travel sections of The Baltimore Sun, Providence Journal Bulletin, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. While living on the East Coast, Tasker contributed to various editions (1995-2002) of Fodor's Virginia and Maryland, Random House. Tasker returned to Michigan in 2002 and was surprised by the extensive network of hiking trails in the Ann Arbor-Detroit urban area. Extensive exploration of the diverse trail system led to his desire to share it all in a new and much-needed book.