{"id":20928,"date":"2015-08-14T23:50:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T06:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20928"},"modified":"2015-08-14T23:51:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T06:51:18","slug":"portola-railroad-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/portola-railroad-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Portola Railroad Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/portotra.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PORTOLA, CALIF. &#8212; One of the few events in California in which a\u00a0city participates in its\u00a0very own railroad heritage, mark your calendars for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/portola-railroad-days.html\">Portola Railroad Days<\/a>\u00a0August 21- 23, 2015. Located in the Eastern Sierras at close to 5,000&#8242; elevation, the city is home to one of the largest railroad museums in the Western US and also the crew change site on Union Pacific Railroad&#8217;s scenic Feather River Route over the Sierra Nevada mountains. Just five miles outside of town in the Sierra Valley, the largest valley in North America above 5,000&#8242; in elevation, the\u00a0headwaters of the middle fork of the Feather River spring forth. The festival makes use of the local natural assets with great contests and events:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Golden Spike Parade<\/li>\n<li>Flycasting, Bass Fishing contests<\/li>\n<li>Pedal Car Races<\/li>\n<li>Car Cruise-In<\/li>\n<li>Train Rides<\/li>\n<li>Chainsaw Carving<\/li>\n<li>Ice Cream Social (free ice cream on limited basis)<\/li>\n<li>Bands, dancing, food, beverages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORTOLA, CALIF. &#8212; One of the few events in California in which a\u00a0city participates in its\u00a0very own railroad heritage, mark your calendars for Portola Railroad Days\u00a0August 21- 23, 2015. Located in the Eastern Sierras at close to 5,000&#8242; elevation, the city is home to one of the largest railroad museums in the Western US and [&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\/20928"}],"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=20928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}