{"id":1706,"date":"2014-08-26T14:46:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T21:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2014-11-28T18:08:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T01:08:36","slug":"alaska-highway-blackstone-territorial-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/?p=1706","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Highway &#8211; Blackstone Territorial Park, Northwest Territories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blackstone Territorial Park, is a small campground located approximately 115km north of Fort Liard, and 166km south of Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories, Canada. The park is located on the bank of the Liard River and is the starting\/ending point for many <span class=\"text11\">paddle trips and river rafters from Nahanni National Park. <\/span>From the shores of the Liard River one can see the very popular Nahanni Mountain Range.<\/p>\n<p>These photos from a road trip from Yellowknife to Whitehorse\u00a0road trip, passing through Blackstone Territorial Park on Aug 3rd-4th, 2013. All photos on this page taken with a Nikon D700 and Nikon 14-24mm lens.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1714\" style=\"width: 484px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1714\" class=\"wp-image-1714 size-large\" title=\"View of the Nahanni Mountain Range from the Visitors Centre\" src=\"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SHS_9429-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"SHS_9429\" width=\"474\" height=\"314\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of the Nahanni Mountain Range from the Visitors Centre<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1713\" style=\"width: 484px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1713\" class=\"wp-image-1713 size-large\" title=\"Enjoying the view over the Liard River and Nahanni Mountain Range from the Visitors Centre\" src=\"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SHS_9454-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"SHS_9454\" width=\"474\" height=\"314\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enjoying the view over the Liard River and Nahanni Mountain Range from the Visitors Centre<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1711\" style=\"width: 484px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1711\" class=\"wp-image-1711 size-large\" title=\"Walking along fallen trees along the shoreline of the Liard River\" src=\"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SHS_9492-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"SHS_9492\" width=\"474\" height=\"314\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walking along fallen trees along the shoreline of the Liard River<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1710\" style=\"width: 484px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1710\" class=\"wp-image-1710 size-large\" title=\"Typical view of the Liard Highway. Yes - it is a gravel road\" src=\"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SHS_9520-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"SHS_9520\" width=\"474\" height=\"314\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Typical view of the Liard Highway. Yes &#8211; it is a gravel road<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1708\" src=\"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SHS_9502-2-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"SHS_9502-2\" width=\"474\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackstone Territorial Park, is a small campground located approximately 115km north of Fort Liard, and 166km south of Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories, Canada. The park is located on the bank of the Liard River and is the starting\/ending point for many paddle trips and river rafters from Nahanni National Park. From the shores of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,408],"tags":[352,1088,68,982,105,354,28],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-assignment","category-travel","tag-blackstone","tag-blackstone-territorial-park","tag-canada","tag-d700","tag-nikon","tag-nikon-14-24mm","tag-northwest-territories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}