{"id":84,"date":"2008-05-04T12:32:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T17:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2008-05-12T13:04:18","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T18:04:18","slug":"little-river-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Little River Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/little_river_falls.jpg\" title=\"Little River Falls\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/little_river_falls.jpg\" alt=\"Little River Falls\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Little River Canyon has two components.\u00a0 The falls here are sort of in the middle.\u00a0 The northern section has no road access so we didn&#8217;t explore it on this trip.\u00a0\u00a0 The southern section has a road running along the west side of the canyon.\u00a0 Also &#8211; we don&#8217;t have kids, but if we did, I&#8217;m pretty sure we wouldn&#8217;t let them stand on the edge of these falls &#8211; although they&#8217;d be allowed to kayak it if they had a good roll \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/grace_high_falls.jpg\" title=\"Grace\u2019s High Falls\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/grace_high_falls.jpg\" alt=\"Grace\u2019s High Falls\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the canyon are numerous cascades and small waterfalls.\u00a0\u00a0 Grace&#8217;s High Falls (shown here) are the highest in the canyon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/lr_canyon.jpg\" title=\"Little River Canyon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/lr_canyon.jpg\" alt=\"Little River Canyon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Little River Canyon has only been part of the National Park system for 8 or 9 years.\u00a0 Signage is not particularly good.\u00a0 There are a few overlooks along the canyon and some very select spots where hiking trails descend to the canyon floor.\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s also about two dozen unmarked pull-outs used by kayakers and climbers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The only place to get an actual map of the park is at the Canyon Mouth Park which is at the south end.\u00a0\u00a0 The road up the rim from Canyon Mouth park is covered in warning signs, but other than being steep and full of switchbacks (as you&#8217;d expect), it&#8217;s not that bad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/trout.jpg\" title=\"Trout in Little River\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/trout.jpg\" alt=\"Trout in Little River\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the canyon mouth you can hike up the river.\u00a0 There&#8217;s an assortment of good swimming holes and it was pretty crowded on a Sunday.\u00a0 About a mile or so upstream we stopped passing other people and eventually spent some time in the river.\u00a0\u00a0 Trout in particular was happy to get in the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little River Canyon has two components.\u00a0 The falls here are sort of in the middle.\u00a0 The northern section has no road access so we didn&#8217;t explore it on this trip.\u00a0\u00a0 The southern section has a road running along the west side of the canyon.\u00a0 Also &#8211; we don&#8217;t have kids, but if we did, I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=84\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Little River Canyon<\/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":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking","category-waterfalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","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=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}