{"id":238335,"date":"2026-06-04T02:50:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/the-colorado-river-is-drying-out-i-paddled-it-to-see-whats-at-stake"},"modified":"2026-06-04T02:50:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:50:34","slug":"the-colorado-river-is-drying-out-i-paddled-it-to-see-whats-at-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/the-colorado-river-is-drying-out-i-paddled-it-to-see-whats-at-stake","title":{"rendered":"The Colorado River Is Drying Out. I Paddled it to See What\u2019s at Stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-colorado-river-is-drying-out-i-paddled-it-to-see-whats-at-stake2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With flows nearing record lows, the Colorado River and the people who depend on it are in for a rough summer. On a packrafting trip down a popular stretch of the river, a Backpacker editor finds a still-gorgeous landscape\u2014and motivation to keep up the fight for one of America\u2019s most important waterways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With flows nearing record lows, the Colorado River and the people who depend on it are in for a rough summer. On a packrafting trip down a popular stretch of the river, a Backpacker editor finds a still-gorgeous landscape\u2014and motivation to keep up the fight for one of America\u2019s most important waterways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}