{"id":24571,"date":"2017-09-16T16:13:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T23:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24571"},"modified":"2017-09-16T16:13:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T23:13:13","slug":"fall-foliage-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/fall-foliage-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan Your Fall Foliage Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/falcolor.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vermont predicts a spectacular year of leaf peeping with peak around October 15. It&#8217;s a long trip from California but worth it! Book early &#8212; rooms sell out around the state&#8217;s most desirable destinations.<\/p>\n<p>Lesser known California fall foliage (pictured) is on a similar track, according to fall foliage expert, John Poimiroo (californiafallcolor.com). He says the High Sierras are\u00a0 currently your best bet for color change with yellow leaves prominent in mid-September 2017.\u00a0 Maximum viewing typically begins in the highest elevations in September, and ends in the lower elevations and foothills in\u00a0 mid-to-late October. However, storms can abruptly end the viewing season. Fall\u00a0 brings popular events such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-oktoberfest.html\">Oktoberfest<\/a>\u00a0to mountain resorts before the ski season goes into full swing.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/nature\/california-fall-foliage.html\">California Fall Color Viewing<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Warm, dry days and cool, clear nights (under 45\u00b0F) mean brilliant colors.<\/li>\n<li>Rainy days and warm nights result in less intense coloration.<\/li>\n<li>California\u2019s cloudless skies and extreme range of elevations (sea level to 14,000&#8242;) provide ideal conditions for the development of consistently vivid fall color.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Mid-September 2017<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Bishop Creek Canyon\u00a0 &#8211; Starting<\/li>\n<li>June Lake \u2013\u00a0 Starting<\/li>\n<li>Ebbett\u2019s Pass \u2013 Starting<\/li>\n<li>Lake Tahoe \u2013\u00a0 Starting<\/li>\n<li>Shasta Cascade \u2013\u00a0 Starting<\/li>\n<li>Big Bear\/So. Calif \u2013 Starting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vermont predicts a spectacular year of leaf peeping with peak around October 15. It&#8217;s a long trip from California but worth it! Book early &#8212; rooms sell out around the state&#8217;s most desirable destinations. Lesser known California fall foliage (pictured) is on a similar track, according to fall foliage expert, John Poimiroo (californiafallcolor.com). He says [&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\/24571"}],"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=24571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}