{"id":23019,"date":"2016-08-11T23:48:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T06:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23019"},"modified":"2016-08-11T23:50:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T06:50:16","slug":"california-gold-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-gold-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"California Gold Fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/grush.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gold fever is brewing in the Sierra foothills\u00a0with\u00a0much excitement leading up to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/world-gold-panning.html\">World Gold Panning Championships<\/a> September 11-18, 2016 in Placerville. Even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-gold-rush-festivals.html\">Gold Rush Live<\/a> festival at Marshal Gold Discovery Park in Coloma changed its annual October event to September with the announcement. &#8216;Athletes&#8217; from around the\u00a0world are expected to participate in the gold panning\u00a0Olympics.\u00a0In addition to the serious &#8216;games&#8217; there are\u00a0fun\u00a0gold panning\u00a0competitions for novices\u00a0and kids. \u00a0The folks in El Dorado County have really outdone themselves putting this event together\u00a0with\u00a0eight action-packed days of entertainment ranging from a Flag of Nations Parade to the grand finale Closing Ceremony with Fireworks!\u00a0 Coinciding with the festival is the annual Gold Bug Mine, one day only, public viewing of the Priest Mine on Sept. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Approx. 45 minutes by car\u00a0the incredible, free\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/sacramento-gold-rush-days.html\">Gold Rush Days<\/a> festival in Old Sacramento Sept. 2-5 is another must-see gold rush experience. The costumes, actors and activities are exceptional!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold fever is brewing in the Sierra foothills\u00a0with\u00a0much excitement leading up to the World Gold Panning Championships September 11-18, 2016 in Placerville. Even Gold Rush Live festival at Marshal Gold Discovery Park in Coloma changed its annual October event to September with the announcement. &#8216;Athletes&#8217; from around the\u00a0world are expected to participate in the gold [&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\/23019"}],"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=23019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}