{"id":7391,"date":"2019-08-16T11:27:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T15:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/?p=7391"},"modified":"2019-08-19T10:50:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T14:50:05","slug":"blue-heron-campground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/2019\/08\/16\/blue-heron-campground\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Heron Campground"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/product\/sheltowee-trace-south-trail-map-2015\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Sheltowee Trace South\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SheltoweeTraceSouth_Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\"><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Hiker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/2006\/images\/index\/images\/outrageGIS-2006_16.gif\" alt=\"Hiker\" align=\"bottom\"> <strong>Sheltowee Trace South map<\/strong>\n<br>Size: medium\n<br>Fee: yes\n<br>Accommodations: 45 sites\n<br>Amenities: Bath house, electricity, potable water, waste disposal\n<br>Open April through November\n<br>Ownership: National Park Service, BSFRRA<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/product\/sheltowee-trace-south-trail-map-2015\/\">Buy Sheltowee Trace South Trail Map<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/pixel\/galleries\/111001_BSF\/Devil_s%20Jump%20Overlook_%20Big%20South%20Fork.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Overlook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The quiet, shady Blue Heron Campground is a short hike or drive from an open-air museum, the Blue Heron Mining Community. The exhibits bring to life the community that operated a coal mine along the river from 1937 until 1962. A restored bridge crosses the Big South Fork and gives hikers wonderful overlooks along the river. A six-mile hiking loop begins near the campground to access the museum. During summer weekends, a passenger does day excursion from the NPS Stearns visitor center to the museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/pixel\/galleries\/1112ZZ_Film\/BSF\/Fall%20in%20the%20Big%20South%20Fork%2024.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Bridge across Big South Fork<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/pixel\/galleries\/BeaverCreekBlueHeron\/adf.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Blue Heron Mining Community exhibit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheltoweetrace.com\/hike\/scenic\/map\/?area=Blue%20Heron\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400px\"><\/iframe>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheltoweetrace.com\/hike\/scenic\/map\/?area=Blue%20Heron\">Enlarge map<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheltowee Trace South map Size: medium Fee: yes Accommodations: 45 sites Amenities: Bath house, electricity, potable water, waste disposal Open April through November Ownership: National Park Service, BSFRRA Buy Sheltowee Trace South Trail Map The quiet, shady Blue Heron Campground is a short hike or drive from an open-air museum, the Blue Heron Mining Community. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campgrounds","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7399,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391\/revisions\/7399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}