{"id":265,"date":"2005-09-06T15:57:10","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T21:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/index.php\/uncategorized\/chaco-road-continued\/"},"modified":"2005-09-06T15:57:10","modified_gmt":"2005-09-06T21:57:10","slug":"chaco-road-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"Chaco Road continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Farmington Daily Times Plan to pave dirt road to ancient canyon draws mixed reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/www.daily-times.com\/artman\/publish\/article_20358.shtml\">Farmington Daily Times Plan to pave dirt road to ancient canyon draws mixed reviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The highway bill that President Bush recently signed &#8212; $286 billion in spending &#8212; contains $800,000 to smooth the ride on the recommended route into Chaco Culture National Historical Park.<\/p>\n<p>San Juan County, which owns the road, plans to apply chip seal &#8212; layers of oil and crushed rock chips &#8212; to 13 miles of dirt.<\/p>\n<p>With five miles already done, and three more previously scheduled for next spring, the entire 21 miles connecting major artery U.S. 550 and Chaco could be paved within a couple of years. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The park, in northwestern New Mexico, gets about <b>80,000 people annually<\/b>, and chief of interpretation Russ Bodnar says opinions about the road are evenly split.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of them are just absolutely appalled that the access to a national park could be so horrible. Other folks walk in and tell us that they realize it makes Chaco a special place,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nPark officials are taking no position on the paving, since it\u2019s San Juan County\u2019s road. Nor have they estimated its impact on visitation. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Can&#8217;t we spend a bit of that $800,000 on some guestimates? mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmington Daily Times Plan to pave dirt road to ancient canyon draws mixed reviews The highway bill that President Bush recently signed &#8212; $286 billion in spending &#8212; contains $800,000 to smooth the ride on the recommended route into Chaco Culture National Historical Park. San Juan County, which owns the road, plans to apply chip &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=265\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chaco Road continued<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}