Galveston Island State Park<\/a> reopening. This park is located on Galveston Island in Texas and was pretty much wiped out by Hurricane Ike. There were a few camping areas, a welcome center and a picnic area just behind a small dune that seperated the gulf beach from the rest of the park (the park extends from the gulf shoreline to the Galveston Bay shoreline).\u00a0 The beach was washed away and all this other stuff that was just behind the dunes was smashed to bits.<\/p>\nThe interesting part of the story of this place reopening is the way the park got back to being able to be used again. The local “friends” group for the park spent countless hours cleaning up. They literally moved mountains of trash by organizing a lot of volunteer help, and working with the Texas parks department. The beach is still not open and the campsites are still gone, but the rest of the park is now usable.<\/p>\n
The state had no idea when they would have opened the park if they would not have had the volunteer stuff that was done. After the hurricane Texas officials basically said they did not anticipate opening the park for the forseable future. Basically everyone was resigned to them taking years to get back to being open, and it was unclear if they would offer any services there again.<\/p>\n
Instead what has happened is the park will now be usable, at least for non-campers or people that do not want to visit the beach.\u00a0 It is remarkable that the volunteers did what they did.<\/p>\n
I thought this was a great story about people loving their local beach, so I wanted to pass this along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From time to time I will find the need to post something about the beach that has nothing to do with New Jersey. This is my first, hence the #1. I was come across this blogpost about Galveston Island State Park reopening. This park is located on Galveston Island in Texas and was pretty much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.belmarnj.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.belmarnj.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.belmarnj.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.belmarnj.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.belmarnj.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.belmarnj.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.belmarnj.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.belmarnj.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.belmarnj.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}