{"id":24385,"date":"2017-06-28T11:12:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T18:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24385"},"modified":"2017-06-28T02:05:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T09:05:39","slug":"california-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"California 4th of July Claims to Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/vbmod.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With\u00a032.9 million Americans heading out of town for the 4th of July holiday, we can already tell you where they are going &#8212; California beaches are the #1 spot for holiday attendance, and the busiest beach in the nation is Venice Beach. \u00a0In a busy year around 20 million people visit Venice and many of them come to see &#8216;The Greatest Outdoor Bodybuilding Show on Earth,&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/venice-4th-of-july-body-building-contest-picks-mr-and-ms-muscle-beach.html\">Mr. &amp; Ms. Muscle Beach<\/a> on the 4th of July. Prelims at 10 a.m., Finals at 1 p.m. at Muscle Beach.<\/p>\n<h2>California 4th of July Claims to Fame<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>ALAMEDA:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/4thofjuly\/alameda.html\">Longest Independence Day Parade<\/a>\u00a0in the nation with 3.3 mile route<\/li>\n<li>HUNTINGTON BEACH:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/4thofjuly\/huntington-beach-4thofjuly-parade.html\">Largest 4th of July Parade<\/a>\u00a0west of the Mississippi<\/li>\n<li>HALF MOON BAY : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/4thofjuly\/half-moon-bay.html\"> Ol&#8217; Fashioned 4th of July Parade<\/a> is home-spun, small town America<\/li>\n<li>NEWPORT BEACH: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/4thofjuly\/newport-beach.html\">Old Glory 4th of July<\/a> Boat Parade is most patriotic aquatic display<\/li>\n<li>APTOS: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/4thofjuly\/aptos.html\">World&#8217;s Shortest 4th of July Parade<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SOUTH LAKE TAHOE: \u00a0The largest alpine lake in North America is home to the biggest synchronized 4th of July fireworks display West of the Mississippi. Lights on the Lake\u00a0 starts at 9:30 p.m. on July 4.<\/li>\n<li>ANAHEIM: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/california-4th-of-july-red-white-and-blue-fireworks-shows.html\">Most expensive fireworks land display<\/a> on the 4th of July is at Disneyland. The technology used to ignite the fireworks has been gifted to the public to create less-polluting pyrotechnics.<\/li>\n<li>ALISO VIEJO: Low level \u00a0fireworks display<\/li>\n<li>SANTA MARIA: Best Barbeque in the World is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/dining\/santa-maria-tritip-bbq.html\">Santa Maria Tri-tip<\/a><\/li>\n<li>CALIFORNIA: Produces more wine &amp; beer consumed on 4th of July than any other state<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With\u00a032.9 million Americans heading out of town for the 4th of July holiday, we can already tell you where they are going &#8212; California beaches are the #1 spot for holiday attendance, and the busiest beach in the nation is Venice Beach. \u00a0In a busy year around 20 million people visit Venice and many of [&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\/24385"}],"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=24385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}