{"id":8278,"date":"2015-06-26T14:29:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T20:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/?p=8278"},"modified":"2019-11-13T09:00:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T16:00:33","slug":"big-delta-state-historical-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/big-delta-state-historical-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Delta State Historical Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big Delta State Historical Park<\/a> was an important crossroad for travelers, traders, and the military during the early 1900’s and Rika’s Roadhouse<\/a> is the centerpiece of the park.<\/p>\n

Honestly, I knew nothing of the place until reviewing the Traveler’s Guide to Alaskan Camping<\/a> which outright stated, “even if you are not going to camp here, this is a place you must stop”. So, with that endorsement it made the list for a stop at the least. Once we did make the stop, the calm quiet of “no-where Alaska” bribed us into staying two nights before moving onto Fairbanks.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_4643\"<\/a>Although the camping consisted of only a space in a gravel parking lot, camping so close to the old farm had it’s benefits. Waking to the roster ka-kaw’ing and hear the sheep do their thing from time to time was nice, but simply having a well groomed area to walk among each morning and evening made it a stop not easily forgotten.<\/p>\n

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Big Delta State Historical Park was an important crossroad for travelers, traders, and the military during the early 1900’s and Rika’s Roadhouse is the centerpiece of the park. Honestly, I knew nothing of the place until reviewing the Traveler’s Guide to Alaskan Camping which outright stated, “even if you are...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[254,27],"tags":[279,283],"class_list":["post-8278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alaska","category-state-parks","tag-279","tag-2015-alaska"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4649.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9livM-29w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14695,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8278\/revisions\/14695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}