William Stanek's Mid-Atlantic Coast, Rivers & Highlands
A Literary Field Guide to Mid-Atlantic Coast, Rivers & Highlands National Parks & Scenic Sites

The Mid-Atlantic is a region of thresholds. Atlantic barrier islands meet tidal bays. Great rivers cut through ridges. Forested highlands rise beyond metropolitan corridors. Historic roads, canals, battle landscapes, mountain gaps, seashores, wetlands, and river towns bring public land into unusually close contact with dense human geography. William Stanek's Mid-Atlantic Coast, Rivers & Highlands treats those contrasts as the region's strength. The guide helps travelers move among shore, river, ridge, and historic landscape without turning them into disconnected weekend destinations. Traffic, tide, weather, distance, urban edges, seasonal pressure, and the availability of smaller restorative places become part of the field intelligence. For families, couples, solo travelers, photographers, walkers, history-minded readers, and road trippers, this is a guide to discovering how much wild and scenic America survives within reach of the nation's busiest eastern corridors.