{"id":661,"date":"2016-01-17T23:05:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T06:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=661"},"modified":"2016-01-17T23:07:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T06:07:07","slug":"hiking-the-natural-bridges-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"Hiking the Natural Bridges loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Utah&#8217;s Natural Bridges National Monument was established way back in 1908, but it remains off most visitors to the Utah desert&#8217;s radar. It&#8217;s a small, rather old-fashioned park, with a beautiful loop drive that takes you right past the main attractions: Sipapu, Kachina, and Owachomo natural bridges. The first bridge you encounter &#8211; Sipapu &#8211; is the second largest in the world, and an impressive sight. You don&#8217;t <em>need<\/em> to do any hiking to see the bridges, but the 9 mile loop hike which connects the bridges via stretches of beautiful canyons is highly recommended. I&#8217;ve done it twice, and it makes for a wonderful moderate outing in the desert.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OVKplhU9ZmM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah&#8217;s Natural Bridges National Monument was established way back in 1908, but it remains off most visitors to the Utah desert&#8217;s radar. It&#8217;s a small, rather old-fashioned park, with a beautiful loop drive that takes you right past the main &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=661\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking","category-locations","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}