{"id":3510,"date":"2019-09-07T22:59:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T14:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/?p=3510"},"modified":"2020-04-15T00:59:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T16:59:07","slug":"20190907prince-william-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/07\/20190907prince-william-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiking in Prince Willilam Forest Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the first Saturday of September as my friend and I ventured into Prince William Forest Park, the largest pack of greenness near Washington DC measuring 17000 acres yet not known to many residents of the area.<\/p>\n

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Amazingly, Prince William Forest Park was the site of America\u2019s first spy agency<\/a>, and even more amazingly, the park promoted this fact only in a rather inconspicuous webpage that’s four clicks from its main site<\/a>. Perhaps because what baby CIA did in the park was so immature by today’s standard, that NPS didn’t even bother to erect an information board about that somewhere in the park.<\/p>\n

As for our visit, we planned to take the loop of North Valley Trail – High Meadows Trail – South Valley Trail, but my friend was sort of feeling bored<\/del> tired halfway and we did cut it a bit short. Here’s GPS tracking:
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