{"id":429,"date":"2013-09-29T23:33:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T23:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=429"},"modified":"2013-09-29T23:33:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T23:33:36","slug":"valley-of-fire-state-park-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I saw the southwest and red rock formations I drove a rental to Valley of Fire following a convention in Vegas.  Quite a long time ago, so it was good to be here again.  I was pleased that my cell phone worked, though the campground is built into a pile of rocks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been very happy with Nevada state parks, and this one is especially nice, perhaps the state&#8217;s best.  A great visitor center, excellent scenery, good roads, and low prices (for a state), not to mention quiet and uncrowded.  I&#8217;ll spend another day touring around a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Like in Death Valley, the campgrounds are empty with the exception of me and a dozen or so class C rentals.  There must be a book entitled &#8220;The Europeans Guide to Seeing the US West in a Rental RV&#8221; as they all seem to follow it quite closely.  So far, most are from Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I saw the southwest and red rock formations I drove a rental to Valley of Fire following a convention in Vegas. Quite a long time ago, so it was good to be here again. I was pleased that my cell phone worked, though the campground is built into a pile of rocks. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}