{"id":4753,"date":"2024-07-07T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=4753"},"modified":"2024-07-10T21:06:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T21:06:47","slug":"day-96-hot-springs-and-camping-by-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=4753","title":{"rendered":"Day 96 &#8211; Hot Springs, and Camping by the River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today was a spectacular day, the sun was shining, and it was really hot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our first stop was the liard hot springs. It was only $5 each. The entire complex was surrounded by electric fence to keep the bears from sneaking in for a midnight dip. We still took our bear spray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a ten minute walk along a boardwalk and it was absolutely stunning. We arrived at the pools and they were gorgeous in a natural setting. They had two pools next to each other. One was super hot and the other was just right!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After our swim, we continued driving the Alaska highway and it was an incredible drive. We saw six bears today, the first ones we\u2019d seen in months!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We drove past Muncho lake which is a big lake with beautiful green water. We tried to get a paid camping spot beside the lake but they were all taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We continued driving until we found a wonderful free campsite beside a river, even more beautiful than the paid sites at muncho lake. We sat beside the river (with our bear spray, and watched the river flow by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We spent 3 days here while we cleaned the dust out of our van and did some minor repair s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a spectacular day, the sun was shining, and it was really hot. Our first stop was the liard hot springs. It was only $5 each. The entire complex was surrounded by electric fence to keep the bears from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=4753\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qMoz-1eF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4755,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions\/4755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}