{"id":88,"date":"2010-01-31T04:20:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T22:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldsbestwalks.wordpress.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2010-01-31T04:20:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T22:20:12","slug":"johnston-canyon-up-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"#3 Johnston Canyon &#8211; Up Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worldsbestwalks.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/johnston-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-94\" title=\"Johnston Canyon\" src=\"http:\/\/worldsbestwalks.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/johnston-1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a> It\u2019s not often you can reach out and touch the\u00a0 upper part of a waterfall as it cascades below.\u00a0 You can almost do that at Johnston Canyon in Banff National Park in Canada.\u00a0 There is a rock tunnel (for lack of a better word) that brings you breathtakingly close to the waterfall. \u00a0Brendan at <a href=\"www.johnstoncanyon.com\">Johnston Canyon Resort<\/a> told me that it\u2019s believed nature created a big indentation in the rock\u00a0 and a pioneer\u00a0 bore a hole through it, creating a small viewing area.\u00a0 It offers a spectacular view of the lower waterfall which drops about forty feet.\u00a0 You\u2019ll get drenched by the mist of the waterfall and the roar of the rushing water sends a clear message from Mother Nature about who\u2019s boss.<\/p>\n<p>There is an easy twenty minute hike on a paved walkway to the lower fall and for the more serious hiker, you can venture further on to the upper fall.\u00a0\u00a0 That hike will take about two hours roundtrip I am told.<\/p>\n<p>Unless you&#8217;re into ice climbing you might want to wait until late spring of summer to visit.\u00a0 Alberta&#8217;s frigid temperatures ice over\u00a0 the lower falls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not often you can reach out and touch the\u00a0 upper part of a waterfall as it cascades below.\u00a0 You can almost do that at Johnston Canyon in Banff National Park in Canada.\u00a0 There is a rock tunnel (for lack &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/?p=88\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[19,24,32,84],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banff-national-park","category-worldsbestwalks","tag-banff","tag-canadian-rockies","tag-johnston-canyon","tag-worldsbestwalks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}