{"id":94917,"date":"2026-01-23T19:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/94917\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T19:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:57:06","slug":"lackawanna-county-closes-parks-ahead-of-approaching-winter-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/94917\/","title":{"rendered":"Lackawanna County closes parks ahead of approaching winter storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF)  \u2014 Lackawanna County officials have announced the temporary closure of all county parks in advance of an expected winter storm set to impact the region this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>County parks will close at 8 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 25, including McDade Park in Scranton, Covington Park in Moscow, Merli-Sarnoski Park in Mayfield, and Aylesworth Park in Jermyn. Officials say the parks will remain closed and unstaffed through at least noon on Monday, Jan. 26.<\/p>\n<p>The closures are being implemented as a precautionary measure due to anticipated hazardous weather conditions, which could include heavy snowfall and dangerous travel.<\/p>\n<p>County leaders are urging residents to avoid park facilities during the closure period and to continue monitoring weather forecasts and official county announcements for updates on reopening times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Lackawanna County officials have announced the temporary closure of all county parks in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-94917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94917","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=94917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}