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Contents for Backroads of New York
Part I City Outskirts: Same Sophistication, Different Speed
Outer Long Island: New York’s Cape
Westchester County: City Meets Country
The Lower Hudson Valley: River Tides and Mountainsides
The Hudson Highlands: Lofty Aspirations
Part II The Catskills and The Hudson Valley: Celebrated Landscapes
The Upper Delaware River Valley: Enjoy the Ride
The Shawangunks: So Well Preserved
Eastern Dutchess County: Horse Country
Kinderhook to Hyde Park: A Presidential Path
The Catskills: Immortal Mountains
Part III Around Albany: A Nurturing Environment
The Helderbergs: If Mountains Could Talk, What Secrets They Would Tell
Saratoga: A Pivotal Place
Waterford to Whitehall: Feeding the Dream
Schoharie County: The Power of Water
Cooperstown to Cazenovia: Out of the Park
Part IV The Adirondacks: New York’s Original Skyscrapers
The Adirondack Coast: Chapters of History, Volumes of Adventure
Westport to Lake George: Peace Prevails
The High Peaks: A Wild Rise
The Adirondack Trail: A Rat Race Escape Route
Lake Placid: Land of Miracles
Part V The Seaway and Finger Lakes Regions: A Liquid Center
When in Rome: The Black River Trail
The St. Lawrence Seaway: A Thousand Pieces of Paradise
New York’s Napa: Wine, Women, and Songbirds
Waterfalls of the Finger Lakes: A Gorge-ous Drive
The North Coast: A Swell Place
Part VI The Western Door: Niagara, Chautauqua, and More
Genesee Country: Watch It Wiggle
The AlleghenyPlateau: Rocks and Rolling Ridges
Lakes Erie and Chautauqua: A Place to Grow
Cattaraugus County: Expect the Unexpected
Niagara: No Need To Rush
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
About the Author and Photographer
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Ricardo Valentin Trejo Guzman
reviewed Backroads of New York: Your Guide to New York's Most Scenic Backroad Adventures on January 06, 2015
Backroads of New York: Your Guide to New York's Most Scenic Backroad Adventures
This was a disappointment. It's partly due to the trade paperback size of the book, which meant that the photos necessarily had to be small as well, but since most of them were likely in color to begin with, printing them in black and white made them look muddy and ill-defined. The bigger problem, though, is that the photo selection is not very good. The Last Exit coffeehouse photo was taken from inside and was mostly a closeup of two random guys' faces, there's a shot of an amusement park that's nothing more than an aerial plat photo that probably came from the county property records, there's a photo of a pool table that's supposedly from a famous pool room but which could have come from anywhere. Humphrey also gets a number of facts wrong, misstating the location of the Hat 'n' Boots gas station, confusing Memorial Stadium with Sicks Stadium, and, if he didn't know when something closed down, he went with the all-purpose "early 1980s." And while of course not everything could be included, some of the omissions are glaring. No PI Building, Andy's Diner, Blue Moon Tavern? WTH. Worst of all is the cover photo of the Dag's on Aurora (or really, just the sign in its parking lot) instead of the far more interesting looking Dag's on 4th Avenue with the giant roating Beefy Boy cup on the roof. This is one time I should have judged a book by its cover.
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Add Backroads of New York: Your Guide to New York's Most Scenic Backroad Adventures, New York State's remarkable variety unfolds in its myriad splendors in the routes charted in Backroads of New York. Whether you flirt with the outskirts of Manhattan or follow the call of the road all the way to the Niagara Frontier, each off-ramp , Backroads of New York: Your Guide to New York's Most Scenic Backroad Adventures to your collection on WonderClub |
