{"id":97167534,"date":"2010-08-13T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/travel-shot-st-mary-lake-glacier-national-park-montana\/"},"modified":"2019-07-08T10:54:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T10:54:20","slug":"travel-shot-st-mary-lake-glacier-national-park-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/travel-shot-st-mary-lake-glacier-national-park-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Shot: St. Mary Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<strong><br \/>\nGlacier National Park is free to visit this weekend<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>St. Mary Lake is the second largest lake in Glacier National Park, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/flights\/cheap-flights-to-montana-mt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Montana<\/a>. The scenic lake is 9.9\u00a0miles in length and three hundred feet deep.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Used mostly for trout fishing, the lake barely rises above a chilly 50 degrees in temperature. During the winter the lake is frozen solid with four feet of ice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This weekend you can visit Glacier National Park, or the nearly 400 other U.S. National Parks, for absolutely free.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because admission has been waived Saturday August 14 and Sunday August 15 by the National Park Tourism Services to help promote some of the nation&#8217;s most beautiful and affordable places to visit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the fee-free weekend, Salazar said in a statement, &#8220;I<br \/>\nencourage everyone to take advantage of the free admission to<br \/>\nvisit not only our greatest natural wonders but also our nation&#8217;s<br \/>\nhistoric and cultural icons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> nps.gov\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0 Glacier National Park is free to visit this weekend &nbsp; St. Mary Lake is the second largest lake in Glacier National Park, Montana. The scenic lake is 9.9\u00a0miles in length and three hundred feet deep. &nbsp; Used mostly for trout fishing, the lake barely rises above a chilly 50 degrees in temperature. During [&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-97167534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167534","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=97167534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97206340,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167534\/revisions\/97206340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97167534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97167534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97167534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}