The book does a good job of describing the logistics of the selected runs but falls short by not including much WY whitewater and lacks detail in harder runs.

Frommer's is still trying to pack two very large states into 448 small pages. This new edition offers little difference from the last edition. They've obviously left a lot out. If you like going only where the tourists with money go, this book is adequate. Otherwise save your money. It's a good highlights book, but very weak for usable information.

I bought this book to add more to my upcoming trip to Wyoming in October. I was hoping to read exciting stories from Wyoming's past like the adventures of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. However, this book is very encyclopedic and dry in its presentation of Wyoming's data. The information on the weather will be handy, but I could have done without the pages upon pages of data on soil composition and historical costs of cattle. This book is certainly full of information, just don't expect to be entertained by it.

I have read other books from this author and enjoyed them, however, this book was dissapointing. It isn't nearly as thorough and spends a lot of valuable paper complaining about BLM officials, congress, Forest Service planners, etc. I thought for 400 pages, this was surely an exhaustive guide to Wyoming - but it included so much political hype that I couldn't take it anymore - and I'm enviromentally-minded myself! It also includes a great deal of, "this rock is 55 million years old" which is fine if you want more guess-timated geological history than description to help plan a trip. The problem with the political commentary is simply that it is exaggerated to the point of being fictional. For instance, regarding the hike up Laramie Peak, the author writes, "the motorized visitors are now as abundant as the hikers on the trail, and horsemen are well advised to avoid it...". and that the summit offers a "collection of ugly prefabricated buildings and antennae." I hike Laramie Peak annually, sometimes more often than once a year, and only once have I ever encountered ATVs. I have never thought of this 30 second encounter or the sheds at the top as detractors of the experience and based on his description, nobody would want to go there (which may be the goal). I guess its all in what you are looking for. If you want to read an attempt to advance a political agenda, this is your book. If you want to learn some great hikes and get more useful explanations of areas, you should probably go for Hiking Wyoming - a much better Falcon Guide that has fewer pages and better content - it covers about 40 more trails than Wild Wyoming does.

This book covers only very well known locations and only of rocks and minerals suitable for lapidary. This book is a good 30 years out of date. In my own state, I have been to every location listed and 90% of them do not exist anymore or are no longer accessible. In addition, I know of several other areas that are well known but not listed. Don't waste your time with this book.

This is a very disappointing book. It tries to cover a very broad and very disconnected area of the United States. There are nine states crammed into its pages and each state hardly gets any coverage. A lot of great attractions, restaurants and lodgings are missed as this book tries to cover from Oregon to Iowa! In order to be a helpful travel guide, it should be split into a least two volumes. As it is right now, it is not worth the money.

I recently checked out every guide book I could find on the subject of out of the way places in Wyoming. This one was without question the worst. It is a random collection of disorganized, unhelpful information. To see how a book with this title could have been done well, check out Scenic Driving Wyoming, by Laurence Parent

Why was this book published? The premise--to rephotograph sites that Stimsom had already photographed decades earlier--is hardly original. Prospective buyers should be aware that this is really nothing but a coffeee table book, and it is substandard even for that genre. The rather mediocre photos are only loosely tied together by commentary that is hardly more than poorly written fragments. Even the used book price... is excessive, considering the paltry contents. Even compared to other works in the coffee table book ghetto, this one is surprisingly shallow.