{"id":72,"date":"2008-03-09T22:24:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T03:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2008-03-09T22:24:24","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T03:24:24","slug":"congaree-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Congaree National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A blog entry for a national park?\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I&#8217;m afraid so, although we intend to go back and spend some time on the rivers and make a full web page of it one of these days.\u00a0\u00a0 Congaree is a relatively new National Park (previously just a National Swamp before the glorious promotion in 2003).\u00a0\u00a0 There is a decent network of hiking trails through one section of the park, although much of it is only accesible by canoe during high water times.\u00a0 We did a 5 mile loop or so just to visit the park and collect information for a future trip.\u00a0 Hiking trails here are about as easy as they can get.\u00a0 There&#8217;s no elevation change, an excellent network of bridges over creeks and generally packed solid dirt on the trails.\u00a0\u00a0 A few cypress roots are the only difficulty.\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/congaree.jpg\" title=\"Congaree\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/congaree.jpg\" alt=\"Congaree\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe didn&#8217;t see any wildlife (such as otters, mink, raccoons) but then we had a large clumsy dog and the boardwalk sections of the park were actually rather crowded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blog entry for a national park?\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I&#8217;m afraid so, although we intend to go back and spend some time on the rivers and make a full web page of it one of these days.\u00a0\u00a0 Congaree is a relatively new National Park (previously just a National Swamp before the glorious promotion in 2003).\u00a0\u00a0 There &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=72\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congaree National Park<\/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-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}