{"id":33182,"date":"2021-04-26T10:09:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T14:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=33182"},"modified":"2021-04-30T15:36:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:36:23","slug":"maryland-park-quest-takes-flight-for-2021-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2021\/04\/26\/maryland-park-quest-takes-flight-for-2021-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Park Quest Takes Flight for 2021 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Annual Adventure Runs May 1 through Oct. 31<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"width: 377px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49229988706_2a70594e38.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of boy with binoculars\" width=\"367\" height=\"245\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by by K Michael Lathroum, submitted to the 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/photocontest.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Natural Resources Photo Contest<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announces the annual <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/parkquest\/Pages\/Home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Park Quest<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0returns for 2021, running from May 1 through Oct. 31. In this beloved annual tradition, more than 25 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/parkquest\/Pages\/quest-by-region.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland State Parks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, will offer opportunities to engage families in outdoor activities to experience Maryland\u2019s vast cultural, historical, and natural resources on public lands and parks.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 2021 Park Quest theme is \u201cSpread Your Wings to Explore Maryland\u2019s State Parks,\u201d and many of the quests will help participants learn more about Maryland&#8217;s birds.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As one of many adjustments to the COVID-19 pandemic, Maryland State Parks adapted the ranger-led group activities of Park Quest into \u201cDo-it-Yourself\u201d programs, many of which will continue in 2021 with new ones added. Participants can download and print Park Quest worksheets on the Maryland Park Service website.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally there is no longer a Park Quest Passport or registration required, so this program is accessible to everyone! Participants will need to pay the appropriate day-use service charges at certain participating state parks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teams can take advantage of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/parkreservations.maryland.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">cabin and campsite reservations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and spend a night or two under the stars as they explore the state\u2019s network of parks.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additional information for this year\u2019s program, including the quest locations, can be accessed at the<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/parkquest\/Pages\/Home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Park Quest webpage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual Adventure Runs May 1 through Oct. 31 The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announces the annual Maryland Park Quest\u00a0returns for 2021, running from May 1 through Oct. 31. In this beloved annual tradition, more than 25 Maryland State Parks, will offer opportunities to engage families in outdoor activities to experience Maryland\u2019s vast cultural, historical,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2021\/04\/26\/maryland-park-quest-takes-flight-for-2021-season\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"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":[957,4998,12,13],"tags":[4981,3262],"class_list":["post-33182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hiking","category-parks","category-wildlife","tag-maryland-state-parks","tag-park-quest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33182","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33182"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33214,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33182\/revisions\/33214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}