{"id":20415,"date":"2015-05-29T20:37:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T03:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20415"},"modified":"2015-05-30T02:31:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T09:31:46","slug":"summer-rides-best-kept-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/summer-rides-best-kept-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Rides, Best Kept Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/mdrbus.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In California summers are a special time when beaches heat up, mountain resort thaw out and some unique, fun opportunities that don&#8217;t cost an arm &amp; leg come your way for just a few months. Among them are several boat rides, trolley rides and buses to the beach. Because these attractions are often subsidized you can enjoy them for less than what it actually costs companies and agencies to operate them!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LONG BEACH Aqualink &#8211; the brightly-colored red, yellow and purple 68-foot Catamaran boat operated by Long Beach Transit costs $5&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>MARINA DEL REY\u00a0\u00a0WaterBus\u00a0carries\u00a0passengers to many of the marina&#8217;s major attractions for $1 each way&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>CORONADO Summer Bus between the Coronado Ferry Landing and Silver Strand State Beach next to\u00a0Loews Coronado Bay Resort&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>AVILA BEACH Trolley &#8211; Free weekend, summer trolley between Avila and Pismo Beach Premium Outlets&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES COUNTY Beach Buses &#8211; Travel to the beach from Altadena, Lancaster, Palmdale, Topanga and more for small fee!<\/li>\n<li>LAGUNA BEACH &#8211; Free summer trolley travels between South Laguna, downtown and Laguna Canyon&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>YOSEMITE VALLEY &#8211; Free summer shuttles to Badger Pass, Tuolumne Meadows and\u00a0Wawona-Mariposa Grove&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/transportation\/great-rides.html\">READ MORE&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In California summers are a special time when beaches heat up, mountain resort thaw out and some unique, fun opportunities that don&#8217;t cost an arm &amp; leg come your way for just a few months. Among them are several boat rides, trolley rides and buses to the beach. Because these attractions are often subsidized you [&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\/20415"}],"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=20415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}