{"id":23691,"date":"2018-08-28T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=23691"},"modified":"2018-08-29T09:25:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T13:25:59","slug":"park-exploration-weekend-at-fort-frederick-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/08\/28\/park-exploration-weekend-at-fort-frederick-state-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Exploration Weekend at Fort Frederick State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Participate in Historical\u00a0and Outdoor Activities Sept. 1-3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/4\/3733\/9466054652_caf289f708_b_d.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Fort Frederick State Park\" width=\"350\" height=\"348\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a> welcomes the public to enjoy Labor Day weekend at <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/Pages\/western\/fortfrederick.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fort Frederick State Park<\/a> Sept. 1-3 during the annual Park Exploration Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Activities will take place 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day; Saturday night will feature a unique nocturnal hike at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Programs will be held within the fort, at nature center, on the trails and at the visitor center. Food, gifts, and souvenirs will be available for purchase at Captain Wort\u2019s Sutler Shop.<\/p>\n<p>Special events include:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>18th century Sewing<\/li>\n<li>Backwoods Patrol<\/li>\n<li>Cricket!<\/li>\n<li>Journaling Your Journey<\/li>\n<li>Nature Treasure Hunt<\/li>\n<li>Patterns of Nature<\/li>\n<li>Stone Construction of the Fort<\/li>\n<li>Tactics of 18th century Warfare<\/li>\n<li>The Great Journey-Monarch Butterflies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please ask for the day\u2019s schedule when arriving at the park. Activities will take place rain or shine!<\/p>\n<p>It will be $3 per car for residents and $5 for nonresidents. Disabled access is available; however, most of the activities are situated on grassy areas that may present difficulty. Parking is available throughout the park and visitors are reminded not to park on the grass. \u00a0Please dress and prepare for the weather.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Frederick State Park is located off Route 70 in Big Pool (Washington County).\u00a0For more information, please call 301-842-2155\u00a0or email <a href=\"mailto:Ellen.Kinzer@maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ellen Kinzer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participate in Historical\u00a0and Outdoor Activities Sept. 1-3 The Maryland Department of Natural Resources welcomes the public to enjoy Labor Day weekend at Fort Frederick State Park Sept. 1-3 during the annual Park Exploration Weekend. Activities will take place 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day; Saturday night will feature a unique nocturnal hike at 8<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/08\/28\/park-exploration-weekend-at-fort-frederick-state-park\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,12],"tags":[4444,3007,2909],"class_list":["post-23691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-parks","tag-ellen-kinzer","tag-fort-frederick-state-park","tag-washington-county"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23691"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23699,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23691\/revisions\/23699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}