{"id":846,"date":"2008-01-19T19:16:49","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T03:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/19\/wilderness-park\/"},"modified":"2008-01-19T19:20:38","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T03:20:38","slug":"wilderness-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/19\/wilderness-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilderness Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/wilderness-park.jpg\" title=\"wilderness park\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image847\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/wilderness-park.jpg\" alt=\"wilderness park\" class=\"right\" width='160' \/><\/a>Nestled in a few acres and not generally visible unless you&#8217;re in it, lies Redondo Beach&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redondo.org\/depts\/public_works\/parks\/hopkins.asp\">Wilderness Park<\/a>. A repose from the bustling city suburbs just a few yards away, this peaceful and idyllic park is the calm within the storm.<\/p>\n<p>Within the park, you can feel isolated, yet walking up the path to the park&#8217;s east boundary, you can get panoramic views of the south bay skyline. There is a pond there too &#8211; today there were several ducks by the pond and one timid snowy egret that swooshed up to the top of a sycamore tree when we showed up. A screech owl flew out of it&#8217;s roost loudly vocalizing as it went along. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hopkins Wilderness Park was developed in 1977 as a center for camping, nature study and conservation. The 11-acre site includes a Visitor Center used for nature-related classes and meetings; four ecological habitats: forest, meadows, streams, and ponds; amphitheater with firepit (150 capacity); three overnight campgrounds: Gumwood Camp, Pine Camp, and Sycamore Camp (30 person capacity each); Day Camp picnic site (30 person capacity); and public restrooms and support facilities.<\/p>\n<p>No entrance fee is required for individuals or families who wish to visit the park.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The pond is shown below. As usual, you can click on most of our thumbnail pictures to see a larger view.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/pond.jpg\" title=\"pond\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image848\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/pond.jpg\" alt=\"pond\" width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nestled in a few acres and not generally visible unless you&#8217;re in it, lies Redondo Beach&#8217;s Wilderness Park. A repose from the bustling city suburbs just&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}