{"id":4679,"date":"2016-09-21T19:25:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T19:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=4679"},"modified":"2022-06-28T15:58:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T15:58:19","slug":"a-drive-through-the-back-country-of-capital-reef-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=4679","title":{"rendered":"A drive through the back country of Capital Reef National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our last trip into the Capital Reef national park was to drive through a more remote section of the park. Several miles were dirt road, and while in good repair, the washboard effect was very pronounced&#8230;the noise and shaking really scared Laddy and he kept trying to get into Jeff&#8217;s lap!<\/p>\n<p>But the views were great &#8211; very interesting rock formations and canyons.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures we took during our &#8216;back-country&#8217; drive:<\/p>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" scoped>.rbs_gallery_69e5b12eaf344Spinner{\r\n\t\t\t\tmargin: 50px auto;\r\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50px;\r\n\t\t\t\theight: 40px;\r\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\r\n\t\t\t\tfont-size: 10px;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t.rbs_gallery_69e5b12eaf344Spinner > div{\r\n\t\t\t  background-color: #333;\r\n\t\t\t  height: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t  width: 6px;\r\n\t\t\t  display: inline-block;\r\n\t\t\t  -webkit-animation: rbs_gallery_69e5b12eaf344-stretchdelay 1.2s infinite ease-in-out;\r\n\t\t\t  animation: rbs_gallery_69e5b12eaf344-stretchdelay 1.2s infinite ease-in-out;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t.rbs_gallery_69e5b12eaf344Spinner 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Several miles were dirt road, and while in good repair, the washboard effect was very pronounced&#8230;the noise and shaking really scared Laddy and he kept trying to get into Jeff&#8217;s lap! But the views were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=4679\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A drive through the back country of Capital Reef National Park<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-114-torrey-ut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6811,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679\/revisions\/6811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}