{"id":7343,"date":"2009-09-29T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=7343"},"modified":"2009-09-29T11:22:09","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T15:22:09","slug":"fixing-the-trip-to-the-glen-step-by-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/29\/fixing-the-trip-to-the-glen-step-by-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing the trip to the glen, step by step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1773274\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hikers and anglers should find it easier and safer to get to the Whirlpool area, thanks to a group of volunteers who installed new stairs on the steepest part of the trail.<\/p>\n<p>More than two dozen volunteers lent their hands to put in place 70 new stairs, making a safer descent to the Niagara River Whirlpool, a popular spot for fishing and hiking.<\/p>\n<p>The work was a partnership between the Niagara Parks Commission and several community groups, including the city&#8217;s trails and bikeways committee, some firefighters and high school students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2008, the trail was almost impassable up there,&#8221; said Lisa Wilson, chairwoman of the city&#8217;s trails and bikeways committee.<\/p>\n<p>The top of the staircase is near a parking area, across from the Whirlpool golf course.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Hikers and anglers should find it easier and safer to get to the Whirlpool area, thanks to a group of volunteers who installed new stairs on the steepest part of the trail. More than two dozen volunteers lent their hands to put in place 70 new stairs, making a safer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,27],"tags":[2157,99,144,2158,126,774],"class_list":["post-7343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-scenery","tag-lisa-wilson","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-niagara-river","tag-staircase","tag-whirlpool","tag-whirlpool-golf-course"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}