Product Description

A practical guide aimed at ensuring that family outings are fun, safe and memorable. It highlights successful strategies for hiking, backpacking, family cycling and canoeing.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #513379 in Books
• Published on: 1997-06-16
• Released on: 1997-06-16
• Original language: English
• Binding: Turtleback
• 272 pages

From Amazon.com
This unique guide has all the information any parents could need in order to enjoy the outdoors with their children. The author covers everything from car camping to backpacking to campsite fundamentals. Filled with color photos, drawings, helpful tips, and information about kid-specific products, this guide will lead parents every step of the way toward providing family-friendly outdoors experiences.

New Star-Ledger, 6 December 1998
Colorfully illustrated with good how-to directions and art, the books--which have durable plastic covers and water-resistant pages--cut to the chase of a given activity....The "Parents' Guide to Hiking & Camping" is a must-have for any inexperience adult camper intending to take children into the outdoors.

Ingram
A guide for parents taking their children on vacation offers strategies for safe, fun hiking, backpacking, cycling, canoeing, and camping, and covers such subjects as family adventure gear, campsite fundamentals, age-specific activities, and much more.

Customer Reviews

Time for adventure!
This wonderful book will be useful to anyone wanting to incorporate children of any age into an outdoor-oriented lifestyle, whether you've been hiking and camping for years, or just getting started. Written by an active outdoor-type parent with a young son who was initiated into the outdoor way of life an early age, this book is full of information on how to keep your kids warm, dry, happy, and excited about being outdoors. I especially like the straight forward advice on where you should spend and save your money when it comes to outfitting your kids. It also recognizes that some children embrace an outdoor lifestyle more slowly than others, and has advice for breaking them in slowly and positively. Packed with inspiring pictures, parental tidbits, time-tested advice, and recommended reading, this book will have you planning your next outing in no time. Highly recommended!

Great resource
I like the overall philosophy of this book. Has good information on gear for kids, how to make it fun, not getting caught up in "getting there" but just having fun, food, book recomendations, child carriers, motivating kids, games & tons more. Written by outdoors people who have taken their kids on trips from infancy on. I think they get a little carried away on the conservation stuff (like bringing roasting stick from your own yard so you don't cut a branch off a tree in the wild), but that's to be expected from anything by Trailside. If you have a kid & really want to get serious about taking them climbing, camping, hiking, canoeing, etc, this book has some good information. Just reading it is making me want to get out there!