{"id":97023,"date":"2018-11-20T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mesa-verde-to-offer-free-admission-on-five-days\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T23:27:00","slug":"mesa-verde-to-offer-free-admission-on-five-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mesa-verde-to-offer-free-admission-on-five-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesa Verde to offer free admission on five days"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\" data-naviga-align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=88c444a7-074d-47ec-a764-71ee3e579e28&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=88c444a7-074d-47ec-a764-71ee3e579e28&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=88c444a7-074d-47ec-a764-71ee3e579e28&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=88c444a7-074d-47ec-a764-71ee3e579e28&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1063\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"Mug House at Mesa Verde National Park.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Mug House at Mesa Verde National Park.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They are:<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Jan. 21: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">April 20: Start of National Park Week\/National Junior Ranger Day.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Aug. 25: National Park Service Anniversary.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Sept. 28: National Public Lands Day.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Nov. 11: Veterans Day.<\/em>\u201cWe truly enjoy the opportunity to offer free admission to Mesa Verde,\u201d Superintendent Cliff Spencer said in a press release. \u201cFrom annual pass holders to those who have never visited Mesa Verde, we encourage everyone to take advantage of these great opportunities to visit your park.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mesa Verde offers a look into the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo people who made it their home from A.D. 600 to 1300. The park protects nearly 5,000 known archaeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings.<\/p>\n<p>The entrance fee waiver does not cover camping or tours.<\/p>\n<p>The annual $80 America the Beautiful National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass allows unlimited entrance to more than 2,000 federal recreation areas, including all national parks. There are also free or discounted passes for senior citizens, current members of the military, families of fourth-grade students and disabled citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House at Mesa Verde National Park.The Journal file They are: Jan. 21: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.April 20: Start of National Park Week\/National Junior Ranger Day.Aug. 25: National Park Service Anniversary.Sept. 28: National Public Lands Day.Nov. 11: Veterans Day.\u201cWe truly enjoy the opportunity to offer free admission to Mesa Verde,\u201d Superintendent Cliff Spencer said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[855,21,173],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-97023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-archaeology","tag-cortez","tag-mesa-verde-national-park"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97023","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=97023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97023"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=97023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}