Books reviewed: California Coastal Byways, Sierra Nevada Byways, and California Desert Byways Tony Huegel’s Byways series, from Wilderness Press, are my oldest and most-used offroad trail books.

Books reviewed: Backcountry Adventures: Southern California, and Backcountry Adventures: Northern California Peter Massey and Jeanne Wilson have created what surely must be the offroad trail books to which all others must be compared.

This is the first post in a series which will discuss offroad and backroad books that cover the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California. Since it’s the first, I’ll go over the ground rules…