{"id":23654,"date":"2016-12-21T22:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T06:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23654"},"modified":"2016-12-21T22:30:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T06:30:32","slug":"holiday-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/holiday-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/fameven.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As 2016 comes to a close\u00a0California mountain resorts are\u00a0turning the corner (into 2017) with high hopes for lots of\u00a0snow. They&#8217;re jazzed and looking forward to hosting thousands of visitors during peak holidays,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/mountain-christmas.html\">Christmas<\/a> through New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<h2>Travel Tips<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Secure accommodations before you go.<\/li>\n<li>Carry chains and know how to use them on your vehicle. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a video:\u00a0https:\/\/youtu.be\/_8RVbDuyOcY<\/li>\n<li>Plan for alternate routes. Mountain road conditions available at: \u00a0dot.ca.gov\/hq\/roadinfo\/mtnhwys.htm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Holiday celebrations<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/big-bear-lake-torchlight-parade.html\">Torchlight Parade<\/a> at Snow Summit | Big Bear Lake Dec.31<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/newyear\/torchlight-parades.html\">Kids Torchlight Parade<\/a> at Squaw Valley | Alping Meadows Dec.31<\/li>\n<li>Mammoth Lakes: Mountain Tours at Mammoth Mountain and Kids Activities with Woolly through Dec.28. New Year&#8217;s Eve parties, too!<\/li>\n<li>Tahoe South: Starting\u00a0Dec.22 Heavenly Village features ice sculptors, carolers, and a 16-foot interactive snow globe where kids can get their photos taken with Santa.\u00a0On\u00a0Dec.31 ring in the New Year with an outdoor concert, a unique 9 p.m. &#8216;Gondola&#8217; ball drop and an explosive fireworks show.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 2016 comes to a close\u00a0California mountain resorts are\u00a0turning the corner (into 2017) with high hopes for lots of\u00a0snow. They&#8217;re jazzed and looking forward to hosting thousands of visitors during peak holidays,\u00a0Christmas through New Year&#8217;s Day. Travel Tips Secure accommodations before you go. Carry chains and know how to use them on your vehicle. \u00a0Here&#8217;s [&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\/23654"}],"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=23654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}