{"id":6774,"date":"2022-08-08T03:19:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T03:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/several-state-parks-close-sunday-as-lots-hit-capacity\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T03:19:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T03:19:44","slug":"several-state-parks-close-sunday-as-lots-hit-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=6774","title":{"rendered":"Several state parks close Sunday as lots hit capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPosted: August 7, 2022 \/ 3:17 PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tUpdated: August 7, 2022 \/ 3:17 PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>Conn.  (WTNH) \u2014 Connecticut residents can enjoy the sun;  just not in certain state parks.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Connecticut Department of Transportation, the following parks close after their parking lots reach capacity:<\/p>\n<p>Squantz Pond State Park &#8211; New FairfieldMillers Pond State Park &#8211; HaddamPattaconk Recreation Area (Cockaponset State Forest) &#8211; ChesterBigelow Hollow State Park &#8211; UnionGillette Castle State Park remains open until sunset, but ticket sales for castle tours is sold out &#8211; East HaddamGardner Lake State Park &#8211; Salem<\/p>\n<p>See the full list of state parks <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.ct.gov\/DEEP\/State-Parks\/Listing-of-State-Parks\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stay tuned for updates with WTNH in the News 8 app<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtnh.com\/news\/connecticut\/several-state-parks-close-sunday-as-lots-hit-capacity\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted: August 7, 2022 \/ 3:17 PM EDT Updated: August 7, 2022 \/ 3:17 PM EDT Conn. (WTNH) \u2014 Connecticut residents can enjoy the sun; just not in certain state parks. According to the Connecticut Department of Transportation, the following parks close after their parking lots reach capacity: Squantz Pond State Park &#8211; New FairfieldMillers Pond State Park &#8211; HaddamPattaconk Recreation Area (Cockaponset State Forest) &#8211; ChesterBigelow Hollow State Park &#8211; UnionGillette Castle State Park remains open until sunset, but ticket sales for castle tours is sold out &#8211; East HaddamGardner Lake State Park &#8211; Salem See the full list&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}