REVIEWS OF HAUNTED HIKES
"The ultimate guide to spooky hikes and blood-curdling trails."
---Backpacker

"Spell-binding."
---Newsday

"Oooh Scary."
---Detroit News

"...a fun read."
---Dayton Daily News

"Eminently readable" ---Arizona Republic

"This former park ranger digs up a wealth of spooky lore about National Parks...Particularly rewarding for history lovers."
---People Magazine

"...a backpackful of spooky stories and freaky folklore... Lankford, a former park ranger, maintains the sensible attitude that legend and folklore, as well as eyewitness accounts of unusual phenomena, are an essential part of each park’s cultural history." ---Association of College and Research Libraries


"Part history book and part trail guide, Haunted Hikes is sure to appeal to a wide range of hiker campers, and travelers." ---American Hiking Society

"...Haunted Hikes is no mere guidebook. It's a highly entertaining tapestry of stories that add a human (or inhuman) element to natural landscapes... Lankford's vivid and vibrant prose makes this book worth reading even if you never visit the places where the stories took place." --- Road Trip America

"For campers who love a good ghost story, here's a new book that should be stowed in the backpack...Even the most skeptical will find much of interest here because Andrea Lankford, a former NPS ranger, has uncovered as much fascinating history as she has mapped alleged paranormal activities." ---The Courier-Journal


"...a fun compilation of spooky legends and eyewitness accounts of spectral tomfoolery along the trails of our national park system....a practical guide to hiking those same "haunted" areas, with straightforward maps, directions to trailheads, descriptions of terrain and useful tips." ---Sacramento Bee


"An excellent book"
"a must read for outdoorsmen with big imaginations."
---Memphis Outdoors

"A surprisingly well-written guide to the ghosts, unsolved mysteries and paranormal events said to have occurred in America's National Parks"---Seattle Times

"add an unworldly component to your next visit to a National Park."---50plus.com

"Enjoyable reading"---The Fresno Bee




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A People Magazine Travel Pick 2006

You are hiking to another dimension. A diminesion not only of moose and mountain, but of mind. This is your trek through a boundless wilderness full of danger and mystery. This is your walk into the shadowy regions of America’s most scenic places, where ecology meets ectoplasm.

See that sign post up ahead? That is your trail. So fill up your canteens, tighten your bootlaces, and cinch down that pack. You are about to cross into...nature’s Twilight Zone.

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A Selection of Andrea’s Spine-Tingling Tales and Trails


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The Deceptive Isle
A Journey to Anacapa's Dark Side
Ventura County Reporter


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Ten Great Places to go on a Haunted Hike
USA TODAY





Scary Trails
Epic Magazine

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Legendary Lurkers
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