{"id":62506,"date":"2016-09-22T00:09:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T07:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=62506"},"modified":"2016-09-22T00:09:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T07:09:05","slug":"park-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/62506","title":{"rendered":"park maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tPlanning an autumn adventure in a national park? FYI, the National Park Service celebrated its 100th birthday in August.<\/p>\n<p>Zion, anyone?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62509\" style=\"width: 369px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62509\" class=\"wp-image-62509\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/780px-ZION_ENTRANCE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"276\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-62509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Doug Dolde via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Great Smoky Mountains?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62510\" style=\"width: 371px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62510\" class=\"wp-image-62510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/800px-Leaf-Colors-at-Newfound-Gap-NPS1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"361\" height=\"238\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-62510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of the National Park Service via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Or, maybe somewhere in between?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62511\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62511\" class=\"wp-image-62511\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/800px-Voyageurs_National_Park.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"233\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-62511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Ed Lombard, National Park Service, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(That&#8217;s a lovely view of Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota, in case you were wondering.)<\/p>\n<p>But before you gear up to go, point your compass to a new website, National Park Maps, created by park ranger Matt Holly.<\/p>\n<p>According to MNN.com, \u201cHolly began uploading the maps onto a website as a side project to keep himself busy during the 2013 government shutdown \u2026 To date, Holly [a lifelong map lover] has uploaded more than 1,000 maps from 93 of the national park&#8217;s 411 units. For each site, he tries to include detail maps and specialty maps like trail maps, topographical maps, shuttle bus maps, campground maps and regional area maps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What a great resource. Start planning your excursion at <a href=\"http:\/\/npmaps.com\/\"><u>NPmaps.com<\/u><\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planning an autumn adventure in a national park? FYI, the National Park Service celebrated its 100th birthday in August. Zion, anyone? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/62506\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-get_out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}