{"id":40463,"date":"2026-09-03T13:46:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=40463"},"modified":"2026-09-03T13:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:57:08","slug":"today-is-national-wilderness-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=40463","title":{"rendered":"Today is National Wilderness Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sep-3-Natl-Wilderness-Day.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40464 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sep-3-Natl-Wilderness-Day.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sep-3-Natl-Wilderness-Day.jpeg 502w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sep-3-Natl-Wilderness-Day-251x300.jpeg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a>September 3 is National Wilderness Day.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8297\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/980720-Long-Lake-hiker-BZK1-w7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8297\" class=\"wp-image-8297 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/980720-Long-Lake-hiker-BZK1-w7.jpg\" alt=\"Hiker at the steam flowing out of Long Lake. Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado.\" width=\"700\" height=\"550\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hiker at the steam flowing out of Long Lake. Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is one of my photos of Long Lake which is in the Indian Peaks Wilderness. This wilderness area straddles the Continental Divide and is just south of Rocky Mountain National Park.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8092\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/980720_Red_Rock_Lake_CO_BZM33_w7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8092\" class=\"wp-image-8092 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/980720_Red_Rock_Lake_CO_BZM33_w7.jpg\" alt=\"Red Rock Lake, Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado\" width=\"700\" height=\"470\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Rock Lake.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Red Rock Lake is on the way to Long Lake. Both of these lakes are a few miles west of Ward Colorado.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Indian-Peaks-Wilderness-map.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Indian-Peaks-Wilderness-map.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1224\" height=\"1584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Indian-Peaks-Wilderness-map.png 1224w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Indian-Peaks-Wilderness-map-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Indian-Peaks-Wilderness-map-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Indian-Peaks-Wilderness-map-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Indian-Peaks-Wilderness-map-1187x1536.png 1187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1224px) 100vw, 1224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indian Peaks Wilderness map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 3 is National Wilderness Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40463","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=40463"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40471,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40463\/revisions\/40471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}