Covering trails and loops around Portland and Seattle, this guidebook of the Pacific Northwest provides avid hikers with full-color photographs and maps, detailed information on every trail's elevation, distance, difficulty, and duration, and specifics of the route with the author Don Scarmuzzi's own personal tips.

Day Hikes in the Pacific Northwest includes hikes from:

• Mount St. Helens-Indian Heaven Wilderness-Gifford Pinchot National Forest
• Mount Adams-Goat Rocks Wilderness
• Mount Hood-Salmon Huckleberry Wilderness
• Mount Jefferson-Opal Creek-Bull of the Woods Wilderness
• Three Sisters Wilderness and South
• Oregon Northern Coastal Range
• Eastern Oregon-Wallowas

This book is a follow-up to Scarmuzzi's first book, Day Hikes in the Columbia River Gorge.