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“The Rough Guide to Southwest USA” is the ultimate travel guide with clear maps and detailed coverage of all the best attractions Southwest USA has to offer. Discover the spectacular extremes of landscape; from scenic national parks, ancient sites of New Mexico and Arizona’s Grand Canyon and Apache trail, to unique cities like Santa Fe, vintage Americana, Wild West towns and the lively nightlife of Las Vegas. The guide is packed with reliable, up-to-date description… More >>
4 Responses to “The Rough Guide to Southwest USA 5”
Excellent help in planning trip to the south west USA.
We intend to take a two week auto trip in the area and it has some great ideas for the visit.
Rating: 5 / 5
I love this guide, very useful, concise, and easy to find information. It also gives names of books we can read before having the great adventure to visit the west of USA. I think I got to know the WEst before being there thanks to this guide.
Rating: 5 / 5
I recently traveled through the Southwest, and picked up this guide as well as three others to prepare for the journey. I agree wholeheartedly with the previous comments about the disdain Greg Ward showers on his subject matter as well as his fixation on a certain chain of budget motels. (I actually stayed at one of his recommended motels in Benson, Arizona – it was like most other budget hotels in the USA.) The book is also bulky, with the typical small print of the Rough Guide series.
However, for all its faults, it appears to be one of the more comprehensive, current travel guides available for the Southwest region. As long as you also refer to other materials and insights, this guide book will serve as a good foundation for your trip across the Southwest.
Rating: 4 / 5
I recently made a road trip across the American Southwest and purchased both the Lonely Planet 4th Edition (December 2005) and the Rough Guide 4th Edition (October 2006) as my guides for the week-long adventure. The Rough Guide, while still far above Frommer’s or a Mobile guide, just does not compare to the Lonely Planet guide. This Rough Guide is oversized (nearly twice as thick as its competitor), but doesn’t offer any significant additional information for all that bulk.
The author has a clear distaste for the Southwest, referring to the desolation and hum-drum nature of many of the Southwest outpost towns. Clearly, anyone buying this book already chose to spend time in the Southwest, so the haughty attitude about what could possibly carry a visitor to certain towns, or about the availability of only chain motels, wears thin fast.
The big selling point of the Rough Guide is the additional historical and contextual information provided along the journey. For example, I learned that Smokey Bear does not, in fact, have “the” in the middle of his name, and one is best to remember that before visiting Capitan, New Mexico. The guide also has hundreds of black and white photos scattered throughout the text, some of dubious utility to the reader.
Rating: 4 / 5