Hiking Trails of the Southern Nantahala Wilderness, the Ellicott Rock Wilderness, and the Chattooga National Wild and Scenic River

I bought this book hoping to find some coverage of the Southern Nantahala in Georgia(anything from Eagle Mountain near Chatuge Lake east to Hightower Bald), instead, I found it to extensively cover North Carolina and a section of the Appalachian Trail that's exhaustively covered in numerous other books, websites, and guides. It will probably be useful in some future trips to NC and the Chattooga River, but for a guide for the Southern Nantahala in Georgia, the best we've found is  Longstreet Highroad Guide to the Georgia Mountains (Longstreet Highlands Innactive Series)  and even that should be used with great caution as a lot's changed since it was published in 1998. I've got several of Tim Homan's other guides,  The Hiking Trails of North Georgia and  Hiking the Benton Mackaye Trail and  Hiking Trails of the Cohutta and Big Frog Wildernesses 2nd (second) edition Text Only , so no knocks on him, but I wish the description had been a little clearer on what this was going to cover and what would be missing.

This guide is very wordy. Not as I expected, but nice to have a lot first-hand information about the area. The paper seems thin and I would worry about taking this with me on too many hiking trips.

A great trail guide for part of northeast Georgia and the western Carolinas. The trail guides are very specific and list ample mile markers. The only problem with the book is that the trail guides are only written in one direction. I hiked the Chattooga River trail from north to south but the trail guide description reads from south to north only so I had to reverse engineer it prior to the trip. Otherwise, no complaints.