{"id":13810,"date":"2013-09-26T03:25:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T10:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=13810"},"modified":"2013-09-26T03:26:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T10:26:34","slug":"mono-county-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/mono-county-towns\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting to Know Mono County &#8211; Sierra Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/monoc.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For those who think life is a beach, don&#8217;t forget about California&#8217;s upper crust&#8211;the mountainous areas of the Sierra Nevada mountains where beauty unfolds in surprising ways on a daily basis. Seasons mean so much more when summer greenery transforms to orange, yellow and red before your eyes&#8211;a sign that big changes are coming. \u00a0For those who haven&#8217;t visited California&#8217;s spectacular mountain destinations in Mono County, it takes about 5-7 hours driving from the Bay Area and approx. 6-8 hours from L.A. Or you can fly into Mammoth Airport (90 minutes from L.A., 90 minutes from San Diego, 65 minutes from the Bay.)<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few tried &amp; true places to check out in Mono County (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/mountains\/mono-county-towns.html\">read more about them<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BENTON HOT SPRINGS<\/li>\n<li>BRIDGEPORT<\/li>\n<li>CONVICT LAKE \/ MCGEE CREEK<\/li>\n<li>CROWLEY LAKE<\/li>\n<li>JUNE LAKE<\/li>\n<li>LEE VINING<\/li>\n<li>MAMMOTH LAKES<\/li>\n<li>ROCK CREEK\/TOM&#8217;S PLACE<\/li>\n<li>SILVER LAKE<\/li>\n<li>TOPAZ<\/li>\n<li>WALKER AND COLEVILLE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who think life is a beach, don&#8217;t forget about California&#8217;s upper crust&#8211;the mountainous areas of the Sierra Nevada mountains where beauty unfolds in surprising ways on a daily basis. Seasons mean so much more when summer greenery transforms to orange, yellow and red before your eyes&#8211;a sign that big changes are coming. \u00a0For [&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\/13810"}],"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=13810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}