{"id":24526,"date":"2024-07-30T12:28:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T16:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=24526"},"modified":"2024-07-30T12:28:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T16:28:02","slug":"micro-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/micro-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro Hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23dadada&amp;d=issuusmaller&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=54&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p2\">The Paths More Trod.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\">Story by Gwen Thompson<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">We all know about the Knife Edge, but how many of us have actually done it? Or need to, when Maine abounds with trails short in distance, long on vistas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>Bradbury Mountain, Pownal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">This is the hike Bowdoin students take their parents on over Homecoming weekend to explain why they want to go to college in Maine: the view from the top says it all, and you don\u2019t need crampons to attain it. Drop your shopaholic companions off in Freeport to score big bargains and drive 10 minutes to Bradbury Mountain State Park. You\u2019ll be up to the summit and back (.6 mile round-trip) before they can count the trout in the fish pond at L.L. Bean.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MicroHikes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MicroHikes.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MicroHikes-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MicroHikes-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brief but Beautiful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1346],"class_list":["post-24526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-july-august-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24526"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24565,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24526\/revisions\/24565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}