{"id":9987,"date":"2013-12-10T12:59:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T12:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=9987"},"modified":"2013-12-10T12:59:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T12:59:33","slug":"storm-damage-shuts-bennachie-centre-car-park-and-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/storm-damage-shuts-bennachie-centre-car-park-and-trails\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm damage shuts Bennachie Centre car park and trails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bennachiecentre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bennachiecentre-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"bennachiecentre\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9988\" \/><\/a>Forestry Commission Scotland is warning visitors to the Bennachie Centre, in Aberdeenshire, that the main Bennachie car park and all trails starting from it are currently closed due to severe wind damage.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission team in the north east is engaging contractors to help clear the damage but it is likely to be the end of this week, at least, before it is reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Cadle, the Commission\u2019s Recreation Forester (South) said: \u201cUnfortunately the storm has hit many of our sites and we are trying to get any fallen trees and other debris cleared as soon as we can.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would strongly urge that members of the public do not try to clear trees themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information, or to report blocked trails and fallen trees, call the Commission\u2019s local district office on 01466 794161. Alternative <a href=\"\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/aberdeenshire\/bennachie.shtml\">Bennachie walks<\/a> can be accessed from the Back O&#8217;Bennachie car park, see details here on <a href=\"\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/aberdeenshire\/bennachie.shtml\">Walkhighlands<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forestry Commission Scotland is warning visitors to the Bennachie Centre, in Aberdeenshire, that the main Bennachie car park and all trails starting from it are currently closed due to severe wind damage. The Commission team in the north east is engaging contractors to help clear the damage but it is likely to be the end of this week, at least, before it is reopened. Dan Cadle, the Commission\u2019s Recreation Forester (South) said: \u201cUnfortunately the storm has hit many of our sites and we are trying to get any fallen trees and other debris cleared as soon as we can. \u201cWe<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/storm-damage-shuts-bennachie-centre-car-park-and-trails\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-access-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9989,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987\/revisions\/9989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}