{"id":83,"date":"2009-09-12T08:56:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T14:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.14886.com\/archestozion\/?p=83"},"modified":"2012-01-21T10:42:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T15:42:01","slug":"canyonlands-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Canyonlands National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>Now here is a place that I&#8217;ve barely explored. It&#8217;s just that immense. And hot in the summer. And dry. And dusty. Did I mention hot? My big memory here is of the campground at willow flat &#8211; camped next to some giant rocks for shade,   when the sun went down,   still very hot. But then a breeze came up and I assured Sheila it would cool things down. Turns out- it was a hot breeze at midnight. I guess the rocks retain their heat and dissipate it to the wind overnight. Kind of like being in a blast furnace. But still, an adventure, a fun one at that. We couldn&#8217;t get any radio to listed to either in this remote location, but my new at the time XM satellite radio did the trick.<\/p>\n<p>This park is divided up into several sections. Islands in the sky, Horseshoe Canyon, The Maze and the Needles. You can&#8217;t really drive between them since the roads don&#8217;t go that way (probably because of the namesake canyons).<\/p>\n<p><strong>My favorite things to do here<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The overlooks at &#8220;Islands in the Sky&#8221; section<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Things I want to come back to do<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The needles section<\/li>\n<li>Some of the longer hiking trails<\/li>\n<li>Drive a 4&#215;4 through the desert<\/li>\n<li>A canoe or kayak trip on the Colarado<\/li>\n<li>Mountain Bike<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fun Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most people find it impractical to visit more than one or two districts on a single trip<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>National Park Service Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/cany\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/cany\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NPS Map<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/home.nps.gov\/applications\/hafe\/hfc\/carto-detail.cfm?Alpha=cany\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/home.nps.gov\/applications\/hafe\/hfc\/carto-detail.cfm?Alpha=cany<\/a><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now here is a place that I&#8217;ve barely explored. It&#8217;s just that immense. And hot in the summer. And dry. And dusty. Did I mention hot? My big memory here is of the campground at willow flat &#8211; camped next to some giant rocks for shade, when the sun went down, still very hot. But [&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":[21],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all_parks","category-visited","tag-utah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","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=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}