{"id":93891,"date":"2019-05-21T10:48:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T16:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-state-park-opens-season-with-music-and-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2019-05-21T10:48:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T16:48:06","slug":"mancos-state-park-opens-season-with-music-and-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-state-park-opens-season-with-music-and-astronomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos State Park opens season with music and astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=210f2321-b22c-454c-bfaf-dfa954205d89&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1422\" height=\"1067\" alt=\"Mancos State Park opens Memorial Day weekend with music and astronomy.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Mancos State Park opens Memorial Day weekend with music and astronomy.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mancos State Park officially opens the summer season with Memorial Day weekend events Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Local naturalist and interpreter Jennifer Frost will present a night sky program at 9 p.m. Friday, May 24, at the group picnic area near the park entrance station. Children and adults are welcome. Bring a flashlight that beams in red, a blanket and wear clothing for cool weather.<\/p>\n<p>Well-known area musician Tom Kochanski will give a fun, family-friendly concert in the park amphitheater at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 25. Concert-goers are welcome to bring a nonalcoholic hot drink.<\/p>\n<p>Free Fishing Weekend will take place June 1 and 2. Persons of any age can fish without a state fishing license. The park has been stocked with rainbow trout from the Durango fish hatchery. Learn to cast from 9:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 1, at the park entrance.<\/p>\n<p>At noon Saturday, June 1, there will be free boat rides on the park patrol boat. Personal flotation devices are provided for every passenger.<\/p>\n<p>All 33 park campsites are now open.<\/p>\n<p>All events are free with the park entrance fee of $8 per vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Park opens Memorial Day weekend with music and astronomy.du1-i-syn Mancos State Park officially opens the summer season with Memorial Day weekend events Friday and Saturday. Local naturalist and interpreter Jennifer Frost will present a night sky program at 9 p.m. Friday, May 24, at the group picnic area near the park entrance station. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-93891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93891"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=93891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}