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The Milepost 2003: 55th Anniversary: Trip Planner for Alaska, Yukon Territory, British Columbia, Albertq & Northwest Territories (Milepost, 55th Ed)

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Title: The Milepost 2003: 55th Anniversary: Trip Planner for Alaska, Yukon Territory, British Columbia, Albertq & Northwest Territories (Milepost, 55th Ed)
by Morris Communication Corp
ISBN: 1-892154-11-0
Publisher: Morris Communications Corp
Pub. Date: April, 2003
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $25.95
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Average Customer Rating: 4.27 (15 reviews)

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Rating: 2
Summary: Does Not Live Up to Reputation
Comment: While not TERRIBLE, this book is fairly useless. Certainly it is not worth its asking price.

I was convinced to buy it by a friend who had used it to get around Alaska 25 years ago. But after a month of traveling around the state, I ended up feeling ripped off. In my travels around Alaska, I found numerous free vacation planners or free travel guides as good or better than this turkey.

The book has numerous problems. In most cases, historical or cultural information is missing completely, or described in the most perfunctory way. And even when there's actually something of interest, thousands of disguised advertisements for paying businesses clutter the text, making it hard to find.

The book is more or less a business directory, and its community descriptions seem taken straight from census data.

25 years ago, it MAY have a good resource (though I'm not even convinced of that.) But it seems to have become obsolete. If you really want the information it's peddling, wait till you get to Alaska to pick up a free guide, or hit the internet.

Rating: 5
Summary: Don't travel Alaska without it
Comment: As a former tour guide in Chicken, AK., this is the one book I recommended to anybody traveling through the state. My father, a gold miner in Alaska for 20 years, still carries a copy in the back of his truck.

Rating: 1
Summary: Commercially driven & not useful
Comment: I found this guide extremely unhelpful for my trip thru Alaska and the Canadian Rockies. It seems to be comprehensive but it is dominated and prejudiced by those who advertise in the publication. It sat unread in the back of my van for the entire journey.

One of the world's greatest drives is along the Icefields Parkway between Lake Louise and Jasper, but this does not appear in The Milepost (i suspect) as there are no commercial advertisers along this national park route. This one ommission in itself makes the planner unacceptable.

Further, there are no suggestions or evaluations of the areas covered, so the reader has no help in choosing destinations or routes. Again, i assume, this is so as to not alienate the advertisers.

On the other hand it does list many establishments in the areas. I found it more helpful to use the internet or local tourism authorities where i could evaluate by seeing and reading; rather than the telephone directory-style Milepost.

I have found the Moon books far more useful. Even the usually non-commital Lonely Planet guides have more critical evaulations.

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