{"id":4971,"date":"2017-06-13T11:40:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T15:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=4971"},"modified":"2017-06-13T11:40:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T15:40:15","slug":"salisbury-beach-state-reservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/13\/salisbury-beach-state-reservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Salisbury Beach State Reservation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The beach<\/p><\/div>\n

I had an hour to kill yesterday while Jett was napping, so I decided to run down to the Salisbury Beach State Reservation<\/a> – just a half-mile away – to take a peek. The place was packed over the weekend with traffic backed up a half mile trying to get into the parking lot, so I was wondering what the attraction was. I assumed it was a beach and not much else.<\/p>\n

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The campground<\/p><\/div>Well, it is certainly a beach – a very nice, sandy beach – but it is also a huge campground. 438 sites, mostly for RVs but some tent-only sites, too. They are all water\/electric (no sewer), but the park has a huge 4-lane dump station for emptying your tanks as you leave. The summer rates for an RV site are under $35 a day, making it very affordable (most private RV parks in Massachusetts charge over $50 per day) and it is very close to the beach. An easy walk. The problem, for us, is that there is a 40-foot limit on the RV length (we are 42) and there is a 14-day limit on the number of days you use the campground during the summer season. But for people who want a very nice campground for a short stay near the beach in MA, this is a great option.<\/p>\n

The other problem for us, as seniors, is that the $10 annual senior pass for day use is limited to MA residents. Ah, finally a downside to being FL residents.<\/p>\n

Since the reservation is very near “downtown” Salisbury Beach – a small honkytonk beach town – I dropped by there for a few minutes, too. I was surprised to see a bunch of remote TV station vans set up and broadcasting. As it was after 5pm it was obvious that they were doing live segments from Salisbury Beach. I wondered what the story was. Well, it turns out that the body of a fisherman who had gone missing a few days before washed up on the beach that afternoon. Must have been an unpleasant surprise for the families and the small children who were trying to get a break from the 94-degree heat.<\/p>\n

\"TV<\/a>

TV trucks<\/p><\/div>

\"Downtown<\/a>

Downtown Salisbury Beach<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had an hour to kill yesterday while Jett was napping, so I decided to run down to the Salisbury Beach State Reservation – just a half-mile away – to take a peek. The place was packed over the weekend with traffic backed up a half mile trying to get into the parking lot, so … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,60,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places-ma","category-net","category-places"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-1ib","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4978,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971\/revisions\/4978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}