{"id":13230,"date":"2013-08-07T02:28:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T09:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=13230"},"modified":"2013-08-07T02:32:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T09:32:24","slug":"amazing-sierra-nevada-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/amazing-sierra-nevada-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Sierra Nevada Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sierrmts.jpg\" width=\"920\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Celebrate the seasons in the Sierras with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/nature\/california-fall-foliage.html\"> leaf peeping <\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0fall (left photo), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/climbing-half-dome-may-be-within-reach-this-week-deadline-looms\/\">hiking<\/a> &amp; sight-seeing in the summer (middle), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/mountains\/yosemite-national-park-waterfalls.html\">waterfall spectacles<\/a>\u00a0to behold in the spring (right photo).<\/p>\n<p>For the majority of Californians living near the coast, the Sierra mountain range is out of sight and often out of mind. However, the mountain with a name that means &#8220;snowy range&#8221; is 400 miles in length (nearly half the state&#8217;s length) by 70 miles wide, and features so many amazing attractions that you owe it to yourself to spend a vacation checking them out&#8211;a portion of them, at least! We mentioned recently that you can save around $15 by getting into the Sierra&#8217;s\u00a0national parks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/free-admission-days-2013-to-california-national-parks\/\">free on certain days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"imgs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/gif\/sierras.gif\" width=\"265\" height=\"303\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>See some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/mountains\/sierra-mountain-vacation.html\">highlights of the Sierras<\/a>!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate the seasons in the Sierras with leaf peeping \u00a0in the\u00a0fall (left photo), hiking &amp; sight-seeing in the summer (middle), and waterfall spectacles\u00a0to behold in the spring (right photo). For the majority of Californians living near the coast, the Sierra mountain range is out of sight and often out of mind. However, the mountain with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}