{"id":855,"date":"2017-05-23T17:28:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T17:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/?p=855"},"modified":"2019-03-15T15:43:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T15:43:45","slug":"sunrise-at-knapps-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/?p=855","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise at Knapp&#8217;s Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>East Camino Cielo snakes along the Santa Ynez Mountains in Santa Barbara. Up here, there are great views of the ocean and, to the north, Lake Cachuma.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-856\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20151107_062220-e1495559672328.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20151107_062220-e1495559672328.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20151107_062220-e1495559672328-300x181.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20151107_062220-e1495559672328-768x464.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>Along this road lies a short trail to Knapp&#8217;s Castle, originally built as a mountain lodge in the 1900s by George Owen Knapp. In 1940, the mansion was purchased by Francis Holden to live in with opera singer Lotte Lehmann. A few weeks later, however, it burned down in a forest fire. The stone ruins remain today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-857\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20151107_063804-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20151107_063804.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20151107_063804-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20151107_063804-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/>A rope swing transforms the place into a playground!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-858\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20151107_064319-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20151107_064319.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20151107_064319-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20151107_064319-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/>Morning rays of light hitting the Santa Ynez Mountains<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-859\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20151107_064426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20151107_064426.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20151107_064426-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20151107_064426-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>This is a fairly popular place to watch sunrise\/sunset, so it was a bit crowded when I arrived (despite my empty photos). Made it a little less spooky!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East Camino Cielo snakes along the Santa Ynez Mountains in Santa Barbara. Up here, there are great views of the ocean and, to the north, Lake Cachuma. Along this road lies a short trail to Knapp&#8217;s Castle, originally built as a mountain lodge in the 1900s by George Owen Knapp. In 1940, the mansion was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}