{"id":1850,"date":"2008-03-26T10:54:15","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T18:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/03\/26\/santa-clara-county-car-camping-recommendations\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T10:56:05","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T18:56:05","slug":"santa-clara-county-car-camping-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/03\/26\/santa-clara-county-car-camping-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Clara County car camping recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nice places to car camp near Silicon Valley:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mount Madonna:<\/strong> Most ecologically diverse county park, with miles of great redwood and oak woodland hiking. It&#8217;s better to camp here in the spring or fall. The marine layer from the Pacific keeps the park&#8217;s campgrounds downright chilly in the summer, even if it&#8217;s in the high 90s in Silicon Valley. We went one July 4 weekend expecting a respite from the heat and came  home a day early because we were tired of freezing our fannies off (it&#8217;s not like <em>winter<\/em> cold, but it&#8217;s nippy enough to be uncomfortable in the summer). <\/li>\n<li><strong>Uvas Canyon:<\/strong> Totally shaded, this campground probably offers a better haven from the heat. The canyon&#8217;s gorgeous waterfalls will be a mere trickle in summer, but even then, the sound of running water is comforting.  <\/li>\n<li><strong>Sanborn Skyline:<\/strong>  The few paved parking lot sites for RVs are unappealing, but the walk-in sites are excellent: shady, well-spaced and, as near as I could tell last summer, not heavily used (not for the weak of leg, though: the campground is perched on a steep hillside &#8212; schlepping gear up to it won&#8217;t be a vacation, but it might tire out the rugrats). Sanborn Skyline also has excellent single-track trails up into the Santa Cruz Mountains. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I had a much more extensive list working but a software glitch killed the rest &#8212; please fill in with your faves from around the area, if you&#8217;ve got a minute.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice places to car camp near Silicon Valley: Mount Madonna: Most ecologically diverse county park, with miles of great redwood and oak woodland hiking. It&#8217;s better to camp here in the spring or fall. The marine layer from the Pacific&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/03\/26\/santa-clara-county-car-camping-recommendations\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[108],"tags":[252],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}