Hike Orange County Pocket Guide: Best Day Hikes in OC's Parks, Preserves & Special Places

Hike Orange County Pocket Guide: Best Day Hikes in OC's Parks, Preserves and Special Places

Orange County offers lots of fun for the hiker with a great combo of classic trails and new, easy-to-access pathways. From Peters Canyon to Holy Jim Waterfall to the Laguna Coast Wilderness, find great places to re-connect with nature and get away from it all. What are you waiting for? Take a hike!

Head for the hills with great hikes in the Laguna Hills, Anaheim Hills and Santa Ana Mountains.
Get healthy workouts and inspiring views on ascents to Robbers Peak, Old Saddleback and Top of the World.
Choose from easy nature walks near town, moderate hikes in quiet canyons and all-day adventures in wilderness parks.



Perfect for your pocket or pack, Trailmaster Pocket Guides feature colorful stories, trusted trail accounts, and easy-to-follow maps for two dozen of the best day hikes in a region. Carefully crafted, handsomely designed, with top quality printing in the USA. High value and low-cost, Trailmaster Pocket Guides make great gifts, sure to delight those special hikers in your life.

Along with HIKE Orange County, check out the other popular Trailmaster Pocket Guides, including HIKE the San Gabriel Mountains and HIKE Griffith Park and Hollywood Hills.


About the Author

John McKinney is the author of 30 books about hiking, parklands and nature, including The Hiker's Way and Hiking on the Edge: Dreams, Schemes, and 1600 Miles on the California Coastal Trail.

For 18 years, John, aka The Trailmaster, wrote a weekly hiking column for the Los Angeles Times, and has hiked and enthusiastically described more than ten thousand miles of trail across America and around the world. The intrepid Eagle Scout has written more than a thousand articles about hiking plus numerous trail guidebooks, including HIKE Southern California: A Day Hiker's Guide and Day Hiker's Guide to California's State Parks.

One of the nation's top hiking experts, John is particularly passionate about sharing the trails of his home state of California. John solo-hiked the entire California coast while pioneering the California Coastal Trail and is the only one to have visited, hiked - and written about - all 270 California State Parks.

When John McKinney says, Take a hike! people do. Many people - hikers and not - credit John's talks and books with inspiring them to hit the trail to a better life. John and his team created The Trailmaster Pocket Guides to share the best day hikes around California, and to give hikers the information they need in an engaging and easily accessible way.

A passionate advocate for hiking and our need to reconnect with nature, John McKinney shares his expertise on radio, TV, online, and as a public speaker. John has been featured or interviewed in major media from the Los Angeles Times to NPR to ABC World News, and appeared on numerous regional talk shows and news programs. Organizations that ask John to share his tips, trails, and inspiring tales include: schools and colleges, churches and retreats, the health and wellness community and conservation and trails organizations.

As John explains it, I've walked a lot of life trails, happy and sad, easy and challenging, and, frankly, more than one path to nowhere. What I've learned along the way I want to share and help others enjoy the benefits of hiking.