{"id":14295,"date":"2013-11-08T02:40:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T10:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=14295"},"modified":"2013-11-08T02:40:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T10:40:27","slug":"free-veterans-day-national-parks-admission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/free-veterans-day-national-parks-admission\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Veterans Weekend National Parks Admission for All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/joshrain.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo by Denise Morrison: A rainbow over Joshua Tree National Park<\/p>\n<p>The last chance in 2013 to enter the national parks in California free on Veteran&#8217;s Day Weekend November 9-11, 2013 is a unique window of opportunity for mini-vacations and getaways when the weather is superb between summer and winter! In the desert at Joshua Tree it&#8217;s like a rainbow-colored dream, while our friends at Mono County Tourism in the Sierras say it&#8217;s fabulous there, as well. The choice of things to do ranges from hiking and fishing, (last hurrah, anglers!) to skiing and snowboarding, (Mammoth Mountain is now OPEN!). \u00a0The Veteran&#8217;s Day weekend weather forecast is looking fine and all passes are OPEN including Tioga Pass\/Hwy 120 through Yosemite, Hwy 108 over Sonora Pass, and Hwy 89 over Monitor Pass. Plus&#8230; Admission to Yosemite National Park this weekend is FREE in honor of Veteran&#8217;s Day. \u00a0See nps.gov<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are<\/strong><strong>\u00a0California\u00a0<\/strong><strong>national parks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/attractions\/san-francisco-alcatraz.html\">Alcatraz Island<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/parks\/san-diego-cabrillo-national-monument.html\">Cabrillo National Monument<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/history\/juan-bautista-deanza-trail.html\">California National Historic Trail<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/parks\/channel-islands.html\">Channel Islands<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/mesquite-flat-dunes-in-death-valley-california\/\">Death Valley<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/joshua-tree.html\">Joshua Tree<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/parks\/lassen-volcanic-national-park-attractions.html\">Lassen Volcanic National Park<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/driving-through-trees-in-california\/\">Sequoia &amp; Kings Canyon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/whiskeytown-national-recreation-area-in-shasta-county-calif\/\">Whiskeytown<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/mountains\/yosemite-national-park-waterfalls.html\">Yosemite<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Devils Postpile, Eugene O\u2019Neill, Fort Point, Golden Gate, John Muir<\/li>\n<li>Lava Beds Manzanar, Mojave, Muir Woods, Old Spanish, Pinnacles<\/li>\n<li>Point Reyes, Pony Express, Port Chicago Naval Magazine, Juan Bautista de Anza<\/li>\n<li>Presidio of San Francisco, Redwood NP, Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco Maritime, Santa Monica Mountains<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Denise Morrison: A rainbow over Joshua Tree National Park The last chance in 2013 to enter the national parks in California free on Veteran&#8217;s Day Weekend November 9-11, 2013 is a unique window of opportunity for mini-vacations and getaways when the weather is superb between summer and winter! In the desert at Joshua [&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\/14295"}],"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=14295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}