{"id":361669,"date":"2026-06-15T18:33:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T18:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/361669\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T18:33:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T18:33:05","slug":"lodi-named-among-americas-favorite-small-towns-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/361669\/","title":{"rendered":"Lodi named among America&#8217;s favorite small towns for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lodi is getting national recognition as one of America&#8217;s favorite small towns.<\/p>\n<p>Parade and Steller announced Monday that Lodi was among the communities named winners in the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/parade.com\/travel\/the-california-town-that-inspired-a-classic-1969-rock-anthem-just-won-a-major-national-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">America&#8217;s Favorite Small Towns 2026<\/a>&#8221; competition.<\/p>\n<p>Lodi was one of two West region communities to receive the honor, along with Bend, Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This win belongs to the people of Lodi, our residents, small business owners, hospitality partners and everyone who voted and rallied their friends, families and coworkers,&#8221; Wes Rhea, of Visit Lodi, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Winners were divided by region, with communities named across the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest and West.<\/p>\n<p>The small towns competition is part of Parade and Steller&#8217;s effort to mark America&#8217;s 250th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>More than 300 towns were nominated for the award, with the selection later narrowed to 40 finalists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lodi is getting national recognition as one of America&#8217;s favorite small towns. Parade and Steller announced Monday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5706,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-361669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-lodi","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}