{"id":429917,"date":"2026-08-11T17:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/429917\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:30:11","slug":"summer-heat-prompts-closure-of-2-popular-san-diego-hiking-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/429917\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Heat Prompts Closure Of 2 Popular San Diego Hiking Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The closures include popular destinations such as Cedar Creek Falls and Three Sisters Falls. Both trails are challenging because hikers encounter the steepest portion on the return trip, when temperatures can be at their highest and hikers may have depleted their water supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Forest officials said the closures are intended to protect visitors and preserve personnel and helicopter resources for potential wildfires. Helicopters used for search-and-rescue operations may otherwise be unavailable to respond to wildfires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The closures include popular destinations such as Cedar Creek Falls and Three Sisters Falls. Both trails are challenging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-429917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429917","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=429917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}