{"id":17496,"date":"2014-09-16T00:13:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T07:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=17496"},"modified":"2014-09-16T00:13:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T07:13:41","slug":"sierra-trees-changing-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/sierra-trees-changing-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Trees Changing Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/fallfull.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leaf peeping (watching the leaves on trees change colors) is absolutely spectacular! The trip to Vermont consumes\u00a0a full day of flying from California and though it&#8217;s a wonderful experience, it can take a chunk of your time and money. \u00a0The lesser publicized California leaf peeping experience has come into its own thanks to social media and savvy marketers who have discovered there&#8217;s tremendous interest in seeing fall foliage close to home. Mono County Tourism, the leader in promoting the Sierra fall change of colors,\u00a0offers a free printed guide with drive suggestions, a detailed map and many helpful tips and information. See MonoCounty.org\/fall-colors, or call 800-845-7922.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/autumn-heat-turns-to-thoughts-of-leaf-peep.html\">Last year&#8217;s\u00a0weather\u00a0conditions<\/a> appear\u00a0similar to current patterns, which means you can go now through mid-to-late October. Below are a few popular &#8220;hot spots&#8221; from an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/nature\/california-fall-foliage.html\">extensive list of drives you can take<\/a>!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>June Lake Loop (Highway 158)<\/li>\n<li>Rock Creek Road<\/li>\n<li>Virginia Lakes and Green Creek Road at the top of Conway Summit (Highway 395)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaf peeping (watching the leaves on trees change colors) is absolutely spectacular! The trip to Vermont consumes\u00a0a full day of flying from California and though it&#8217;s a wonderful experience, it can take a chunk of your time and money. \u00a0The lesser publicized California leaf peeping experience has come into its own thanks to social media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/17496"}],"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=17496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}