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About 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Raleigh
Product Description Written for quick getaways or leisurely strolls, these city-by-city guides offer concise information to each area¿s best trails. From the Back Cover It's time to take a hike! No more excuses like 'there's nowhere to go around here,' 'the woods are too far from the city,' or 'I don't have time to wander the trails.' With 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Raleigh as your guide, you have dozens of places to hike to your heart's content, and all within an hour's drive or less. Trailblazers scour the earth for the best places to explore, and yet they often overlook their own backyards. 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Raleigh blows the lid off the myth that you can't have a great hike close to home. The Triangle area may be an ever-expanding metropolis, but there are still plenty of super hiking options: short hikes, long hikes, hikes for kids, urban hikes, rural hikes, wildlife hikes, historic hikes, and many others. Whether you live in Raleigh, Durham, or Chapel Hill, 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Raleigh provides you with the information you need to choose the perfect day hike, including maps, directions, trail lengths, hiking times, and a wealth of detail about the trail itself. So lace up those boots, sling that pack, and hit the trail! (6 X 9, 224 pages, b&w photos, maps) About the Author A native North Carolinian, Lynn Setzer grew up a military brat, moving cross-country every several years. After graduating from Appalachian State University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, she spent 14 years as a technical writer and publications manager in the software industry. Lynn lives in Raleigh, where she writes travel stories for the Raleigh News and Observer and consults with high-technology companies about their publications requirements. An avid hiker, cyclist, and sea-kayaker, Lynn is also the author of A Season on the Trail and Great Adventures in North Carolina. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. As you leave the parking lot and walk down to the trailhead, be sure to note the shallow ford in the river. You are walking on land that witnessed some of the area¿s earliest history. William Few, a prosperous Quaker from Pennsylvania, came to this area, with his wife and brother James in 1758. He bought 640 acres of ground on both sides of the Eno River. After clearing the land and starting crops, he and James erected a gristmill, the remains of which you can see by fording the river and walking up the river to the left. (The remnants can also be seen from Fanny¿s Ford Trail if you don¿t want to get your feet wet.) / Both men were politically active, James particularly so. James eventually became known as one of the Regulators, a group that wanted to reform colonial government with regard to taxation. "Regulated" taxes, they thought, would at least be fair taxes. In this way, the Regulators were forerunners of the Revolutionary War patriots.
