{"id":659,"date":"2014-10-25T09:53:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T16:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/?p=659"},"modified":"2018-05-17T14:29:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T21:29:48","slug":"the-coolest-national-park-you-probably-never-heard-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"The Coolest National Park You (probably) Never Heard Of"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As \u00a0big kid said, while visiting the Denver Mint, we learned about the America the Beautiful quarters, which are being released from 2010 until at least 2021 and feature national sites from each of the 50 states.<\/p>\n

Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve was selected for the quarter for Colorado. We decided to make the 250 mile drive and check it out …. and we are very glad that we did!!!<\/p>\n

The park is at 8000 feet elevation, with 11,000 + feet mountains to one side, and North America’s tallest sand dunes to the other side. We had fun exploring the dunes and the visitor center. But the highlight was renting a sand sled and sledding down the dunes!! All the fun of sledding, but none of the cold and wet of snow!<\/p>\n

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(Shout out to the lovely ranger working at the entrance kiosk. Fun chatting with you!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As \u00a0big kid said, while visiting the Denver Mint, we learned about the America the Beautiful quarters, which are being released from 2010 until at least 2021 and feature national sites from each of the 50 states. Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve was selected for the quarter for Colorado. We decided to make … Continue reading The Coolest National Park You (probably) Never Heard Of<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/2482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}