{"id":12115,"date":"2025-08-06T17:17:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/?p=12115"},"modified":"2025-08-06T17:17:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:17:47","slug":"hike-ettiquete-reminder-no-open-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/hike-ettiquete-reminder-no-open-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiking Etiquette Reminder: No Open Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><strong>Remember, open fires are not permitted on the East Coast Trail at any time. No exceptions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">The East Coast Trail runs through fragile ecosystems, private lands, and coastal forest. One slip-up and we\u2019re looking at charred trails, evacuated communities, and firefighters diverted from other emergencies.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><strong>In addition, Newfoundland and Labrador are currently under a province-wide fire ban.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hikers must always follow local fire ban regulations in provincial campsites and private property.<\/p>\n<p>Use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.nl.ca\/ffa\/public-education\/forestry\/forest-fires\/fire-hazard-map\/\">Provincial Fire Hazard Map<\/a> for the most up-to-date fire regulations. The current fire ban will not be reassessed until September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember, open fires are not permitted on the East Coast Trail at any time. No exceptions. The East Coast Trail runs through fragile ecosystems, private lands, and coastal forest. One slip-up and we\u2019re looking at charred trails, evacuated communities, and firefighters diverted from other emergencies. In addition, Newfoundland and Labrador are currently under a province-wide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homepage","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12117,"href":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115\/revisions\/12117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastcoasttrail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}