{"id":181649,"date":"2026-05-01T22:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181649\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T22:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:18:23","slug":"berks-county-introduces-free-backpack-lending-program-for-trail-enthusiasts-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181649\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks County introduces free backpack lending program for trail enthusiasts | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Berks County is launching a backpack lending program for anyone looking to hit the trails.<\/p>\n<p>There are four types of backpacks trail users can borrow.<\/p>\n<p>Some have birding supplies, information about insects, art supplies, and information about the history of the bridges along the trail.<\/p>\n<p>The backpacks are geared toward children in kindergarten through fifth grade.<\/p>\n<p>They are free to borrow and use in county parks.<\/p>\n<p>You can reach out to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkspa.gov\/departments\/parks-and-recreation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Berks County Parks and Recreation Department<\/a> to reserve a backpack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Berks County is launching a backpack lending program for anyone looking to hit the trails.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,81105,28,736,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-181649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-berks-county-parks-and-recreation-department","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}