{"id":19997,"date":"2018-04-18T10:55:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T15:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=19997"},"modified":"2018-05-04T06:47:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T11:47:23","slug":"national-park-week-and-fee-free-day-april-21-29-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=19997","title":{"rendered":"National Park Week (and Fee Free Day), April 21-29, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19577\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180308-parks-collage-w8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19577\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19577\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180308-parks-collage-w8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Parks Collage. Click for a larger version.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>April 21-29 is National Park Week and April 21 is a fee free day! The National Park Service is partnering with the National Park Foundation to celebrate our national parks.\u00c2\u00a0 It is time to head to one of our national parks.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the events:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>April 21:<\/strong> <a id=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/planyourvisit\/fee-free-parks.htm|\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/planyourvisit\/fee-free-parks.htm\">A Fee Free Day<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"CP___PAGEID=5858712,national-junior-ranger-day.htm,30733|\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/subjects\/npscelebrates\/national-junior-ranger-day.htm\">National Junior Ranger Day<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Volunteer Day (part of <a id=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/getinvolved\/national-volunteer-week.htm|\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/getinvolved\/national-volunteer-week.htm\">National Volunteer Week<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>April 22:<\/strong> Earth Day\u00e2\u20ac\u201dLet&#8217;s get out and celebrate the <a id=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/subjects\/npscelebrates\/rivers-trails-50th.htm|\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/subjects\/npscelebrates\/rivers-trails-50th.htm\">50th anniversary<\/a> of the National Trails System and the Wild &amp; Scenic Rivers System!<\/li>\n<li><strong>April 28:<\/strong> <a id=\"CP___PAGEID=5516092,what-we-do.htm,30740|\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/subjects\/military\/what-we-do.htm\">Military &amp; Veteran Recognition Day<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>April 29:<\/strong> <a id=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/planyourvisit\/healthy-parks.htm|\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/planyourvisit\/healthy-parks.htm\">National Park Rx Day<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Need help deciding where to go?\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=20003\">my guide to the national parks that are at their photographic best in the spring<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong> More Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/subjects\/npscelebrates\/national-park-week.htm\">National Park Week<\/a> &#8211; more info at the official NPS site<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalparks.org\/our-work\/campaigns-initiatives\/find-your-park\">Find Your Park<\/a> at the National Park Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=19537\">The Best National Parks to Photograph in Spring<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=19534\">One Photographer and Nine Outdoor\/Travel Writers Pick the Best National Parks for Spring<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 21-29 is National Park Week and April 21 is a fee free day! The National Park Service is partnering with the National Park Foundation to celebrate our national parks.\u00c2\u00a0 It is time to head to one of our national &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=19997\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photo-locations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19997"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20007,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19997\/revisions\/20007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}