{"id":513,"date":"2009-11-16T14:06:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T18:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/?p=513"},"modified":"2013-10-05T12:29:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T16:29:11","slug":"national-park-of-american-samoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/513\/national-park-of-american-samoa\/","title":{"rendered":"National Park of American Samoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right;margin:5px 10px 5px 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/images\/american-samoa\/american-samoa-l.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/images\/american-samoa\/american-samoa-3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ofu Beach National Park of American Samoa NPS Photo by John Brooks\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"image-border\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"photo-caption-f\"> Ofu Beach NP of American Samoa NPS Photo<\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>National Park of American Samoa<\/strong> includes paleotropical rain forests, pristine coral reefs, and white sand beaches on three volcanic islands in the South Pacific that are home to a variety of tropical animals, including the flying fox fruit bat. Overnights in villages are encouraged.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NP of American Samoa<\/strong> was authorized October 31, 1988 and a 50-year lease was signed September 9, 1993. The lands for this National Park are owned by the villages and are leased to the National Park Service.<\/p>\n<p>Total Acreage: 9,000, all nonfederal, Water area: 2,500.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<b>National Park of American Samoa<\/b> is located in a remote part of the South Pacific and you will need to do some detailed planning to get there.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n[ad#mr-nw]<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-links1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/npsa\/\" >National Park of American Samoa<\/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>Ofu Beach NP of American Samoa NPS Photo National Park of American Samoa includes paleotropical rain forests, pristine coral reefs, and white sand beaches on three volcanic islands in the South Pacific that are home to a variety of tropical animals, including the flying fox fruit bat. Overnights in villages are encouraged. NP of American [&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":[226,228,12,227,66,229],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-parks","tag-american-samoa","tag-coral-reefs","tag-national-park","tag-national-park-of-american-samoa","tag-snorkeling","tag-south-pacific"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","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=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}