NEW YORK PADDLING GUIDEBOOKS
New York offers the paddler a mindboggling variety and quantity of paddling destinations, from small streams to big rivers, diminutive ponds to expansive lakes, and whitewater as well as flatwater. Fortunately for us, these destinations are well-documented in the plethora of guidebooks available today. At the cost of a movie ticket or dinner at a restaurant, a one-time purchase of a guidebook can bring you many years of pleasure, whereas the movie or dinner offer just an hour or two of satisfaction. If you can’t be out there paddling, you can at least spend time with some of the following guidebooks and start planning that day paddle or weeklong camping trip. In my comments I will try to give you an overview of the content as well as my thoughts on each book’s strengths and weaknesses. *Recommended for paddling in the Adirondacks. Quiet Water New York by John Hayes and Alex Wilson – This is perhaps the best flatwater guide to the whole state with 200 trips listed in an informative,...