{"id":1306,"date":"2021-07-05T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gravelbound.com\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2021-12-20T10:27:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T18:27:29","slug":"metzler-park-green-river-natural-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gravelbound.com\/?p=1306","title":{"rendered":"Metzler Park &#8211; Green River Natural Area"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"> <strong>Trip Date:<\/strong> July 3rd, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">Went for a visit out to this small King County park close to home to walk the dog and explore a new place. I had driven by this park many times on drives down the Green Valley road but had never stopped in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gravelbound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Sunset-on-the-Ridgeline-in-the-Green-River-Valley.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/gravelbound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Sunset-on-the-Ridgeline-in-the-Green-River-Valley-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1727\" width=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gravelbound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Sunset-on-the-Ridgeline-in-the-Green-River-Valley-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/gravelbound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Sunset-on-the-Ridgeline-in-the-Green-River-Valley-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/gravelbound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Sunset-on-the-Ridgeline-in-the-Green-River-Valley-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/gravelbound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Sunset-on-the-Ridgeline-in-the-Green-River-Valley-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/gravelbound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Sunset-on-the-Ridgeline-in-the-Green-River-Valley.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Golden Light on the Treetops at Sunset in the Green River Valley<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.gaiagps.com\/public\/QVy9Rzh38KBmwlKMM1U4FYeO?embed=True\" style=\"border:none; overflow-y: hidden; background-color:white; min-width: 320px; max-width:650px; width:100%; height: 420px;\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"seamless\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">There is a small parking lot with portable toilet and a short trail leading down to the banks of the Green River. The trail is wide and in good condition with a gravel surface at the start, and then turns to dirt as you get closer to the river floodplain. The fork of the trail I went down crossed over a small creek and then ended at the river, where a few fisherman were trying their luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trip Date: July 3rd, 2021 Went for a visit out to this small King County park close to home to walk the dog and explore a new place. I had driven by this park many times on drives down the Green Valley road but had never stopped in. There is a small parking lot with portable toilet and a short trail leading down to the banks of the Green River. The trail is wide and in good condition with a gravel surface at the start, and then turns to dirt <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[31,69],"tags":[314],"gutentor_comment":1,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gravelbound.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gravelbound.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gravelbound.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gravelbound.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gravelbound.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/gravelbound.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"http:\/\/gravelbound.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/1881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gravelbound.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gravelbound.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gravelbound.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gravelbound.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}