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Hike the Bluegrass and Beyond

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Hike the Bluegrass and Beyond is your personal guide to walk, roll, and stroll your way across Kentucky. This newly revised 4th Edition describes over 100 hikes, urban walks, and public gardens, complete with full-color topo maps, photos, and side trip reccomendations. Lightly doused with humor... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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New for 2020! The 3rd edition of "Hike the Bluegrass and Beyond" is your personal guide to walk, roll, and stroll your way across Kentucky. This newly revised, full-color edition describes over 100 hikes, urban walks, and public gardens, plus photos, and side trip recommendations. Full-color topographical maps are included for each hike.

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Hike the Bluegrass and Beyond is your personal guide to walk, roll, and stroll your way across Kentucky. This newly revised 4th Edition describes over 100 hikes, urban walks, and public gardens, complete with full-color topo maps, photos, and side trip reccomendations. Lightly doused with humor and just the right amount of historical trivia, this book focuses on many of the lesser known hiking spots in the Bluegrass region. Whether you rarely get off the couch or you do ironman triathlons for fun, you're sure to find a hike or walk to add to your favorite short list.

Each entry includes a description, trail length, directions to the trailhead, other facilities available, contact information, and lots of full-color photographs. New for 2026, the 4th Edition has been expanded once again, and includes full-color maps for each hike.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780692547373

Publisher: Bluegrass Adventures

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 April 2026

Imprint: Bluegrass Adventures

Edition: 4th edition

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General/trade, General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 336g

Pages: 246

About the Author

Valerie Askren, after spending more than 20 years as a university researcher and professor, traded the ivory towers of academia for the great outdoors. Her background in natural resource economics and love of nature translated into a second career of writing outdoor guides, including "Hike the Bluegrass and Beyond", "Backpacking Kentucky", "Five Star Trails: Louisville and Southern Indiana", "Fly Fishing Kentucky" and "Backcountry Cuisine". She is currently working on a new book, "Cycling Kentucky". An avid outdoorswoman, Valerie has swum in Africa's Lake Malawi, climbed China's Mount Tai, sailed the coast of southern France, biked Nova Scotia, and backpacked the challenging West Coast Trail of Vancouver Island. Her honeymoon was spent kayaking the Grand Canyon with her husband, Ben. The mother of four, Valerie lives in Lexington, Kentucky and hits the trail every chance she gets.

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