{"id":95785259,"date":"2011-01-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/grand-canyon-to-cut-back-on-mule-rides\/"},"modified":"2011-01-16T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T10:00:00","slug":"grand-canyon-to-cut-back-on-mule-rides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/grand-canyon-to-cut-back-on-mule-rides\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Canyon to Cut Back on Mule Rides"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong> <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe iconic mule rides at the Grand Canyon will soon be cut drastically in a new plan approved by the National Park Service.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn the Bight Angel Trail, the southern rim&rsquo;s most popular trail, the number of mules transporting visitors will be cut from 40 per day to just 10.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe park service cited complaints from hikers and trail erosion as the two main causes of the cutbacks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLongtime Grand Canyon mule skinner Ron Clayton is one of many people disappointed with the decision.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;I feel like the Grand Canyon is a gift to people, and when you start restricting usage you make it almost impossible for elderly people to get down into the canyon, or the handicapped,&rdquo; he said in an interview with the Arizona Daily Sun.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/travel.usatoday.com\/destinations\/dispatches\/post\/2011\/01\/grand-canyon-mule-rides-to-be-drastically-cut\/138320\/1\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The iconic mule rides at the Grand Canyon will soon be cut drastically in a new plan approved by the National Park Service. On the Bight Angel Trail, the southern rim&rsquo;s most popular trail, the number of mules transporting visitors will be cut from 40 per day to just 10. The park service cited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95785259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95785259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95785259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95785259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95785259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}