{"id":14713,"date":"2016-12-02T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/glacier-bay-national-park-gets-app\/"},"modified":"2016-12-02T09:00:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T17:00:05","slug":"glacier-bay-national-park-gets-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/glacier-bay-national-park-gets-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Glacier Bay National Park gets app"},"content":{"rendered":"
Glacier Bay National Park now has its own app. The program, called \u201cGlacier Bay National Park Chimani,\u201d runs on iPhone and Android devices, and allows users to navigate using a GPS-enabled map of the park and to find their way around without a cellular connection.<\/p>\n
The free app also helps users stay up to date on park weather, ranger events, sunrise and sunset times, tides, lodging and points of interest related to Glacier Bay.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe apps really help visitors explore and tour each park and gives them a better experience and appreciation for the park,\u201d said Tom Williamson, co-owner of Ortega National Parks, which partnered with Chimani to create the app.<\/p>\n
The Glacier Bay app is one of 59 apps Ortega and Chimani created in partnership with the National Parks Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Glacier Bay National Park now has its own app. The program, called \u201cGlacier Bay National Park Chimani,\u201d runs on iPhone and Android devices, and allows users to navigate using a GPS-enabled map of the park and to find their way around without a cellular connection. The free app also helps users stay up to date […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[149],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-14713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14713"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}