{"id":66,"date":"2009-09-12T08:56:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T14:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.14886.com\/archestozion\/?p=66"},"modified":"2012-01-21T10:41:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T15:41:58","slug":"black-canyon-of-the-gunnison-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>Driving in to this isolated park from Curecanti NRA,   we had the sense that there was something special here. Sure, it&#8217;s not as grand as the other national park with a canyon in its name, but there is a lot of drama and sightseeing to do here. And did I mention the dandelions? They were the size of a baseball here.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>My favorite things to do here<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rim Rock Trail<\/li>\n<li>South Rim Scenic Road and pullouts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Things I want to come back to do<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stay at the south rim campground<\/li>\n<li>Come in the winter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fun Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kayakers run the river here, but it is very technical \u00a0with up to class V rapids and long and dangerous portages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>National Park Service Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/blca\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/blca\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NPS Map<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/home.nps.gov\/applications\/hafe\/hfc\/carto-detail.cfm?Alpha=blca\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/home.nps.gov\/applications\/hafe\/hfc\/carto-detail.cfm?Alpha=blca<\/a><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving in to this isolated park from Curecanti NRA, we had the sense that there was something special here. Sure, it&#8217;s not as grand as the other national park with a canyon in its name, but there is a lot of drama and sightseeing to do here. And did I mention the dandelions? They were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all_parks","category-visited","tag-colorado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318,"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/1318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}