{"id":188643,"date":"2026-04-07T16:41:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/?page_id=188643"},"modified":"2026-04-14T21:53:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:53:50","slug":"big-meadows-club-info","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/members\/sites\/big-meadows-club-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Meadows Club Info"},"content":{"rendered":"\nBig Meadows Observing AreaShenandoah National Park\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhile not an official NOVAC observing site, at 3,500 feet elevation Big Meadows in the Shenandoah National Park offers some of the darkest skies within two hours\u2019 drive of Washington along with decent horizons and glorious, unobstructed views of the Milky Way.\n\n\n\nSituated about halfway down the length of Skyline Drive, Big Meadows is approximately 100 miles from downtown Washington.&nbsp;From Northern Virginia, the closest park entrance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/members\/sites\/big-meadows-club-info\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Meadows Observing AreaShenandoah National Park While not an official NOVAC observing site, at 3,500 feet elevation Big Meadows in the Shenandoah National Park offers some of the darkest skies within two hours\u2019 drive of Washington along with decent horizons and glorious, unobstructed views of the Milky Way. Situated about halfway down the length of    [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4453,"featured_media":0,"parent":187862,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-188643","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2zFiL-N4D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188803,"href":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188643\/revisions\/188803"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}