Synopses & Reviews
Top-selling outdoors writer Tom Stienstra covers the adventures of camping in the Pacific Northwest, including notable campsites along the Olympic Peninsula and Washington Coast, as well as The Southern Cascades, Mount Rainer, and the Columbia Gorge. Stienstra provides easy-to-follow maps with driving directions to each campground, along with camping options from secluded alpine hike-ins to convenient roadside stop-overs.
Complete with details on what to pack, what to wear, reservations, fees, and the best camping facilities, Moon Pacific Northwest Camping gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable camping experience.
About the Author
Tom Stienstra's full-time job for 30 years has been to capture and communicate the outdoor experience. This has led him across California, boating, fishing, camping, hiking, biking, and flying: searching for the best of the outdoors and then writing about it.
Tom is the nation's top-selling author of outdoors guidebooks. He was inducted into the California Outdoor Hall of Fame and has twice been awarded National Outdoor Writer of the Year, newspaper division, by the Outdoor Writers Association of America. He has also been named California Outdoor Writer of the Year five times, most recently in 2007. Tom is the outdoors columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and his articles appear on www.SFGate.com and in newspapers around the country. He broadcasts a weekly radio show on KCBS-San Francisco and hosts an outdoor television show and specials on the CBS/CW networks.
Tom, his wife, Stephani, and son, Kris, live in Northern California.