{"id":41485,"date":"2022-11-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelandmark.com\/?p=41485"},"modified":"2022-11-24T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T11:00:00","slug":"new-trail-welcomes-visitors-to-wachusett-meadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/2022\/11\/24\/new-trail-welcomes-visitors-to-wachusett-meadow\/","title":{"rendered":"New trail welcomes visitors to Wachusett Meadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PRINCETON \u2014 On a bright, breezy day in early October, the ribbon at the start of the All Persons Trail at Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary was untied.<\/p>\n<p>The brief ceremony marked the culmination of several years of work.<\/p>\n<p>The trail, which is roughly Y-shaped, is four-tenths of a mile long and designed to be accessible to all visitors. It begins and ends at the Visitor Center, traveling out and back.<\/p>\n<p>The path is specially constructed to allow for wheelchairs and other mobility assistance devices, there is an audio tour, a printed Braille guide, a tactile sculpture of a snapping turtle, and more for visitors to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Features along the trail include the historic barn, a rain garden, a boardwalk overlooking a beaver wetland, and \u201ceight interpretive stops featuring the history and natural history of this wildlife sanctuary,\u201d according to the Mass Audubon website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> PRINCETON \u2014 On a bright, breezy day in early October, the ribbon at the start of the All Persons Trail at Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary was untied. The brief ceremony marked the culmination of several years of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}