{"id":15501,"date":"2014-02-21T03:18:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T11:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=15501"},"modified":"2014-02-21T03:18:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T11:18:16","slug":"almond-blossom-trail-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/almond-blossom-trail-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Almond Blossom Trail Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/blotral.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In San Jose they describe it as a rural paradise. Located northwest of Sacramento, Capay Valley is made up of towns Guinda, Esparto, Rumsey, Brooks, Madison and Capay. Unparalleled in beauty during the spring are the\u00a0 blossoms on almond trees. Celebrate not one, but two destinations and festivals showing off their almonds this weekend!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1. <strong>CAPAY VALLEY ALMOND FESTIVAL Feb. 23, 2014<\/strong>\u00a0 Take a drive along the <strong>Blossom Trail<\/strong> to Festival Headquarters in Esparto where there&#8217;s live music, a car show, almond baking contest and olive oil tasting; \u00a0Rumsey where there&#8217;s an art show and organic farm prodcuts; \u00a0Guinda where some delicious foods are being served such as almond ice cream and Grammy Wyatt&#8217;s Almond Rocha; Brooks with Cache Creek Casino, two vineyards and an olive oil press; and Capay with live music and dancing. espartoregionalchamber.com<\/li>\n<li>2. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/ripon-almond-festival.html\">RIPON ALMOND BLOSSOM FESTIVAL<\/a> Feb. 21-23, 2014 \u00a0<\/strong>The entire weekend is made for fun with a carnival, parade on Saturday and festival contests and music.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other foods:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/indio-date-festival.html\"><strong>INDIO DATE FESTIVAL &amp; FAIR<\/strong><\/a> ends Feb. 23, 2014 (last weekend)<\/li>\n<li>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/palm-desert-greek-festival.html\"><strong>PALM DESERT GREEK FESTIVAL<\/strong><\/a> \u00a0Feb. 22-23, 2014<\/li>\n<li>3.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/food-festivals-february.html\"><strong> SANTA CRUZ WHARF CHOWDER COOK OFF<\/strong><\/a> \u00a0 Feb 22., 2014<\/li>\n<li>4. <strong>LOS ANGELES U.S. COFFEE CHAMPIONSHIPS<\/strong> \u00a0Feb. 21-23, 2014 uscoffeechampionships.org<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In San Jose they describe it as a rural paradise. Located northwest of Sacramento, Capay Valley is made up of towns Guinda, Esparto, Rumsey, Brooks, Madison and Capay. Unparalleled in beauty during the spring are the\u00a0 blossoms on almond trees. Celebrate not one, but two destinations and festivals showing off their almonds this weekend! 1. [&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\/15501"}],"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=15501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}