{"id":517,"date":"2009-11-16T15:06:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T19:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/?p=517"},"modified":"2013-10-05T12:24:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T16:24:20","slug":"virgin-islands-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/517\/virgin-islands-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Islands National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right;margin:5px 10px 5px 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/images\/virgin-islands\/virgin-islands-np-l.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/images\/virgin-islands\/virgin-islands-np-3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Virgin Islands National Park Photo by NPS\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" class=\"image-border\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"photo-caption-f\"> Virgin Islands National Park Picture by NPS<\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>Virgin Islands National Park<\/strong> covers much of the island of St. John. Features include coral reefs, quiet coves, blue-green waters, and white sandy beaches fringed by green hills. There are also early Indian sites and the remains of Danish colonial sugar plantations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Virgin Islands NP<\/strong> was authorized August 2, 1956 and was designated a Biosphere Reserve in 1976.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nTotal Acreage: 14,688, Federal: 12,916, Nonfederal: 1,772, Water area: 5,650.<\/p>\n<p><b>Virgin Islands National Park<\/b> is located on the U.S. Virgin Island of St. John and is accessible by ferry service.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n[ad#mr-nw]<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-links1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/viis\/\" >Virgin Islands 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>Virgin Islands National Park Picture by NPS Virgin Islands National Park covers much of the island of St. John. Features include coral reefs, quiet coves, blue-green waters, and white sandy beaches fringed by green hills. There are also early Indian sites and the remains of Danish colonial sugar plantations. Virgin Islands NP was authorized August [&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":[12,234,66,232,233,230,231],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-parks","tag-national-park","tag-scuba-diving","tag-snorkeling","tag-st-john","tag-us-virgin-islands","tag-virgin-islands","tag-virgin-islands-national-park"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","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=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}