This book is not good for those who don't already have a good knowledge of Ontario Geography. The maps lack detail. As I am new to Canada. I needed to use the internet in conjunction with this book.Which is what i was trying to avoid on a great outdoors road trip. Perhaps in a year or two i will find this book more usefull!

This is little more than a list of trails with difficulty, length, time. There is a very short description of what you might see but not where on the trail to find it. For example, there is only a 2-sentence description of the 100-km long Ls Cloche Silhouette Trail in Killarney Prov. Park. The rating of very strenuous is an understatement; this trail is only for very fit, very experienced hikers. If the author described each trail in the detail that he does his "picks", then the book would be useful.

This book is useless. There are no maps and no details. You can find better information on the Ontario Parks website.

The pretty cover is the best thing about this book. No trail maps, and limited details on most of the trails. There wasn't any information in this book that you couldn't find on the Ontario Trail Council website. Save your money.

No maps and only the briefest details for each park. A disappointing purchase -I'll be leaving this behind when I go to Ontario in the summer!

This book was very detailed and had a lot of great information in it. It's clear that Mr. Macpherson has spent a lot of time in Canada and that he is well versed in the Provincial Park system. However, the great flaw with this book is surprisingly obvious... there are no maps!

Though he colors in areas such as "Northern Ontario" and "Eastern Ontario" on a large blank map, he does not mark where the parks are within that region, which meant I had to hop on Google and look up the location of each park... something I was hoping to avoid.

If you're looking for a great book on hiking in Ontario, I recommend "Hiking Ontario's Heartland" by Shirley Teasdale instead.

"Ontario Provincial Parks Trail Guide: Trail Guide" summarizes a good few of the many provincial parks in Ontario. The parks are listed by region (Northwestern, Southern, Algonquin, etc.) in the province. The descriptions of the parks are not extensive, neither are all of the trails for each park listed or described. Walking/hiking distances are given for each trail that has been listed. At the end of each region section, 2-3 trails are highlighted in a section called "Al's picks" and described in greater depth (some with B&W photos).

While no detailed maps are required of any guide book, it would have been helpful if the book included some maps with a few key cities and roads in Ontario, and the parks pointed out. The parks would have been much easier to locate this way than by just listing addresses and telephone numbers to contact. There are no maps in the book except for a region map (without any detail) at the beginning of each region section. As an avid hiker I expected to see small detailed maps of at least a few selected trails. There are no trail maps in this book.

If you visit the Ontario parks website, you can find similar information as that given in the book. And with a little more surfing, you can even find websites of conservation authorities with - yes, you guessed it - maps of park trails.

"Ontario Provincial Parks Trail Guide: Trail Guide" is a brief summary of the wealth of provincial parks Ontario has got to offer. While it's not of much use to avid hikers like myself, it is good for people wanting to get a general idea of some of the parks in Ontario.

I returned this pretty much after I received it. A hiking guide without any maps is more or less useless, and the trail descriptions were pretty minimal at best. For the price? Avoid.

The book is generally okay and the "favorites" listing is helpful, but this book could be a lot better. Photographs would be much appreciated because the book has only general descriptions of what the various parks contain. Also, maps/directions to help locate the parks and plan trips would also be very helpful. This book is an okay guide, but it could have been so much better.