{"id":2315,"date":"2015-03-18T16:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T00:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2015-03-02T14:18:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T22:18:46","slug":"aerial-photos-of-arches-national-monument-1-from-1957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/18\/aerial-photos-of-arches-national-monument-1-from-1957\/","title":{"rendered":"Aerial Photos of Arches National Monument #1 (from 1957)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1957, as plans to construct a paved road into Arches National Monument proceeded,\u00a0 a series of aerial photographs were taken.\u00a0 According to former chief ranger Lloyd Pierson, he and superintendent Bates Wilson used these images to plot out the right-of-way for the new road. Later engineers refined the route. What the photographs show, more than anything else, is a very quiet, undisturbed national monument, when visitation barely exceeded 10,000. Within a few years of the road&#8217;s completion, visitation surged to 100,000. Today it hovers at close to one million&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Below&#8230;.see if you can spot Delicate Arch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/20\/aerial-photos-of-arches-national-monument-1-from-1957\/archaerial-delicatearch\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2316\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2316\" title=\"ARCHAERIAL-DELICATEARCH\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ARCHAERIAL-DELICATEARCH-955x1024.jpg\" width=\"573\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ARCHAERIAL-DELICATEARCH-955x1024.jpg 955w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ARCHAERIAL-DELICATEARCH-279x300.jpg 279w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ARCHAERIAL-DELICATEARCH.jpg 1272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Dec\/Jan Issue (click the cover)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2317\" title=\"zephyrcover-dec11\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/zephyrcover-dec1120-217x300.png\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/zephyrcover-dec1120-217x300.png 217w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/zephyrcover-dec1120-741x1024.png 741w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/zephyrcover-dec1120.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1957, as plans to construct a paved road into Arches National Monument proceeded,\u00a0 a series of aerial photographs were taken.\u00a0 According to former chief ranger Lloyd Pierson, he and superintendent Bates Wilson used these images to plot out the right-of-way for the new road. Later engineers refined the route. What the photographs show, more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13167,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions\/13167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}