{"id":111,"date":"2009-10-29T10:15:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T14:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/?p=111"},"modified":"2013-10-06T19:43:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T23:43:01","slug":"shenandoah-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/111\/shenandoah-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Shenandoah National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right;margin:5px 10px 5px 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/images\/shenandoah\/skyline-drive-l.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/images\/shenandoah\/skyline-drive-3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Rattlesnake Point on Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park Picture by John F. Mitchell NPS.gov\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" class=\"image-border\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"photo-caption-f\">Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park NPS Photo<\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>Shenandoah National Park&#8217;s<\/strong> Skyline Drive winds along the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains for 105 miles. The park, which includes 300 square miles of the southern Appalachians, offers the area&#8217;s most famous scenic roadway and hiking trails (including the Appalachian Trail), wildlife viewing points, and an ever-changing hardwood forest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shenandoah NP<\/strong> was established Dec. 26, 1935 and dedicated July 3, 1936.<\/p>\n<p>Total Acreage:199,045, Federal: 198,250, Nonfederal:794, Wilderness area: 79,579.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<b>Shenandoah National Park is located<\/b> in Virginia. The northern end starts around 75 miles west of Washington, DC just off of I-66 at Front Royal, Virginia. The southern end of Shenandoah National Park is about 30 miles west of Charlottsville off of I-64. The Blue Ridge Parkway&#8217;s northern entrance starts where Shenandoah NP&#8217;s ends.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n[ad#mr-nw]<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-links1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/shen\/\" >Shenandoah National Park<\/a> &#8211; NPS.gov Official Site<\/div>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/images\/references\/npindex-09-11.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"References\" width=\"497\" height=\"46\" class=\"image-border\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-right\">[ad#ur-ss]<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"clear:both\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-left-single\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park NPS Photo Shenandoah National Park&#8217;s Skyline Drive winds along the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains for 105 miles. The park, which includes 300 square miles of the southern Appalachians, offers the area&#8217;s most famous scenic roadway and hiking trails (including the Appalachian Trail), wildlife viewing points, and an ever-changing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[60,33,12,56,55,59,57,58],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-parks","tag-blue-ridge-parkway","tag-mountains","tag-national-park","tag-shenandoah","tag-shenandoah-national-park","tag-skyline-drive","tag-virginia","tag-virginia-national-parks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}