{"id":52,"date":"2009-10-25T15:03:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T19:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/?p=52"},"modified":"2013-10-06T19:53:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T23:53:56","slug":"black-canyon-of-the-gunnison-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/52\/black-canyon-of-the-gunnison-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right;margin:5px 10px 5px 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/images\/black-canyon-gunnison\/black-canyon-gunnison-l.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/images\/black-canyon-gunnison\/black-canyon-gunnison-3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Black Canyon of the Gunnison Picture by NPS\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" class=\"image-border\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"photo-caption-f\"> Black Canyon of the Gunnison NPS Photo<\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park&#8217;s<\/strong> ancient Gunnison River was wedged here by volcanic deposits and committed to a course from which it could not escape. Monolithic rock walls rise 2,000 feet above the river.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Black Canyon of the Gunnison<\/strong> was made a National Monument March 2, 1933 and was designated as a National Park on October 21, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Acreage-32,950 Federal: 30,750 Nonfederal:2,200. Wilderness area: 15,599.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<b>Black Canyon of the Gunnison<\/b> is located in Colorado near the town of Gunnison.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n[ad#mr-nw]<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-links1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/blca\/\" >Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park&#8217;s<\/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>Black Canyon of the Gunnison NPS Photo Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park&#8217;s ancient Gunnison River was wedged here by volcanic deposits and committed to a course from which it could not escape. Monolithic rock walls rise 2,000 feet above the river. Black Canyon of the Gunnison was made a National Monument March 2, [&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":[16,268,17,15,96,12,18],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-parks","tag-black-canyon-gunnison","tag-black-canyon-of-the-gunnison-national-park","tag-canyon","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-national-parks","tag-national-park","tag-river"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","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=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}