{"id":15983,"date":"2022-03-11T18:27:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T18:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/?p=15983"},"modified":"2025-05-16T12:00:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T19:00:39","slug":"the-lodge-at-blue-sky-family-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/the-lodge-at-blue-sky-family-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"How the West was Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Wild West beckons, you heed its call. And so my family and I touched down at the foot of the Wasatch mountain range in Salt Lake City, Utah, for a hotly anticipated visit to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/hotel-detail\/the-lodge-at-blue-sky\">The Lodge at Blue Sky<\/a>.\u00a0A mere 35 minutes from Utah\u2019s largest airport, the lodge is set amidst the craggy Rocky Mountains on 3500 acres of untamed nature. An elevated bunker design ensures nothing about the architecture takes away from the magnificence of the land on which it stands and across that land, wildlife sightings are <em>de rigeur\u2014<\/em>we were welcomed by a buck and two does on our approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Blakley and her family have a wild time at Utah&#8217;s The Lodge at Blue Sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"stoc_hidden_slugs":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1598,569,2363,275,2479],"class_list":["post-15983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-diaries","tag-amanda-blakley","tag-an-auberge-resort","tag-the-lodge-at-blue-sky","tag-utah","tag-wanship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15983"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16021,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15983\/revisions\/16021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}