Visit 70 cool cascades in beautiful historic western Massachusetts, led by NYS-licensed hiking guide and outdoors writer Russell Dunn, author of more books on waterfalls than anyone else in the world. Follow Dunn s quest for waterfalls along the Berkshire Trail, the Mohawk Trail, the Jacob s Ladder Trail, through the Taconic Mountains, along the historic Great Road, and through the Hoosic River Valley. Dunn includes a wealth of historical and anecdotal information, detailed directions, maps, antique postcards and contemporary photographs....

Over 70 waterfalls, maps, illustrations, detailed keys and insiders guide to Adirondack waterfalls. From roadside views to wilderness treks and canoe paddles, author Russell Dunn has selected explorations for every level of ability. Includes hikes from Tupper Lake, Lake Placid, Westport, Crown Point, Ticonderoga, Long Lake, Indian Lake, Speculator, Northville, Luzerne, Wells, Lake Goerge and everything in between....

Thirty nature treks, selected for their natural, stand-alone beauty, are enhanced by tangible silhouettes of a fascinating past, from early Native Americans and Colonial settlers to the Industrial Revolution and Victorian-era grand hotels. Hike to waterfalls, mountains, escarpments, lakes, sculpted rocks, ponds, rivers, islands, caves, balanced rocks, geysers, and deep gorges while visiting the sites of famous battles of the Revolutionary War, ghostly industrial ruins, a Moorish-style castle, views and vistas made world-famous by America’s greatest painters, vanished Shaker communities, great estates of the "Gilded Age," a working lighthouse, and "New York’s Mount Rushmore."...