{"id":3011,"date":"2023-07-22T20:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T03:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2023-08-12T16:01:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T23:01:25","slug":"palmer-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/?p=3011","title":{"rendered":"Palmer, Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After leaving the Nabesna Road section of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park we drove west towards Anchorage. It was getting late when we arrived in Palmer, the first city in the greater Anchorage region, so we got some pizza to go and ate at a great city park.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3012\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3012\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8578-Large.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8578-Large-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8578-Large-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8578-Large-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8578-Large-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8578-Large.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Punny name for a park in Alaska<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3013\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3013\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8561-Large.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8561-Large-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8561-Large-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8561-Large-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8561-Large-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8561-Large.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The A-Moosement Park lived up to its name<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We stayed at the Matanuska River Park Campground in Palmer, which we liked so much that we stayed two nights.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3014\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3014\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8572-Large.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8572-Large-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"805\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8572-Large-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8572-Large-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8572-Large.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some kind of Alder tree along the Matanuska River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3015\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8567-Large.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8567-Large-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"805\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8567-Large-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8567-Large-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8567-Large.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matanuska River in the campground<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3016\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3016\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8592-Large.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8592-Large-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"805\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8592-Large-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8592-Large-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_8592-Large.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Matanuska River Park is right at the end of the Palmer airport runway, so we got to see a lot of small planes up close<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After leaving the Nabesna Road section of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park we drove west towards Anchorage. It was getting late when we arrived in Palmer, the first city in the greater Anchorage region, so we got some pizza to go and ate at a great city park. We stayed at the Matanuska River Park Campground &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/?p=3011\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Palmer, Alaska<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3017,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions\/3017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}