{"id":468567,"date":"2026-02-14T17:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/468567\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T17:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:13:12","slug":"escaped-camels-cause-traffic-surprise-on-highway-70-in-butte-county-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/468567\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaped camels cause traffic surprise on Highway 70 in Butte County | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

BUTTE COUNTY, Calif. – A unique traffic situation unfolded on Highway 70 near Concow this morning.<\/p>\n

Five camels were spotted walking in traffic, capturing the attention of locals and authorities alike.<\/p>\n

The camels made their way onto Highway 70 near Concow Rd. in the Feather River Canyon around 4:30 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"escaped<\/p>\n

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The camels wandered about five miles from their home in Concow early Friday (Photo courtesy Emilia Erickson)<\/p>\n

Kelli Saam<\/a><\/p>\n

They were later seen walking back home on Concow Road.<\/p>\n

Emilia Erickson captured video footage of the camels on Jordan Hill Road heading back to their home.<\/p>\n

Erickson told Action News Now that her neighbors own the camels, which have trackers on them.<\/p>\n

She believes the camels may have been spooked by a predator, possibly a cougar, causing them to wander.<\/p>\n

According to Erikson, they wandered about five miles from home, across a creek and two main roads to get to the highway. The owner found them and herded them back home safely.<\/p>\n

The California Highway Patrol and Butte County Animal Control also responded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUTTE COUNTY, Calif. – A unique traffic situation unfolded on Highway 70 near Concow this morning. Five camels…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[14881,3729,3,79,452,201],"class_list":["post-468567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-butte-county","tag-local","tag-news","tag-science","tag-top-stories","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}