{"id":6345,"date":"2012-06-11T12:56:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T19:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=6345"},"modified":"2012-06-11T12:58:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T19:58:06","slug":"why-yreka-california-gold-rush-days-and-friendly-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/why-yreka-california-gold-rush-days-and-friendly-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Yreka California? Gold Rush Days and Friendly Folks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/yre.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"963\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/yreka.html\">Yreka, California<\/a>, much less considered visiting, that&#8217;s OK. One of the friendliest places among top 100 Best Small Towns doesn&#8217;t get all excited if it&#8217;s not on your radar. Locals don&#8217;t require validation&#8211; they have three sets of mountains to gaze at on a daily basis!\u00a0 Located 22 miles south of the California-Oregon border next to Interstate 5, the gold rush era town\u00a0 features over 70 well-preserved pre-1900 houses listed on the National Registry of Historic Places.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend Yreka is hosting its annual Gold Rush Day on June 16, 2012.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a perfect opportunity to get to know your California neighbors!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Location: Gold Rush Days takes place on Saturday, June 16, 2012 along Miner St., Broadway, Lane and 4th St.\u00a0 in Yereka, CA.<\/li>\n<li>Cost: The event is free, yrekachamber.com<\/li>\n<li>Hours: 9 a.m. &#8211; 8 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Gold Rush Days activities at the events:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Miner Man Arm Slam<\/li>\n<li>Chili Cook Off<\/li>\n<li>Street Theatre and Stage Performances<\/li>\n<li>Vendor Booths &amp; Farmers Market<\/li>\n<li>Children\u2019s Activities: (Three legged races, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Horseshoe Competition<\/li>\n<li>Street Dance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve never heard of Yreka, California, much less considered visiting, that&#8217;s OK. One of the friendliest places among top 100 Best Small Towns doesn&#8217;t get all excited if it&#8217;s not on your radar. Locals don&#8217;t require validation&#8211; they have three sets of mountains to gaze at on a daily basis!\u00a0 Located 22 miles south [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6345"}],"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=6345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}