{"id":3757,"date":"2016-08-09T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/denali-national-park-officials-make-plans-to-reopen-road\/"},"modified":"2016-08-09T08:00:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T15:00:42","slug":"denali-national-park-officials-make-plans-to-reopen-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/denali-national-park-officials-make-plans-to-reopen-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Denali National Park officials make plans to reopen road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 The only road into Alaska\u2019s Denali National Park is expected to completely reopen Tuesday if the weather cooperates and steep terrain nearby remains stable.<\/p>\n<p>A mudslide July 31 closed the road a mile beyond the Eielson Visitor Center, where most tour buses turn around to return to the park entrance.<\/p>\n<p>The slide put an estimated 8,000 cubic yards of material on a 100-foot section of the road and covered it about 10 feet deep.<\/p>\n<p>Park officials in an announcement say steep terrain and near-record rain in July that saturated fine-grain, ancient volcanic ash contributed to the slide.<\/p>\n<p>Park geologist Denny Capps says slides may become more common as permafrost melts and weather events become more intense.<\/p>\n<p>Buses have been allowed past the slide area twice daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 The only road into Alaska\u2019s Denali National Park is expected to completely reopen Tuesday if the weather cooperates and steep terrain nearby remains stable. A mudslide July 31 closed the road a mile beyond the Eielson Visitor Center, where most tour buses turn around to return to the park entrance. The slide put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3757"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}