{"id":34145,"date":"2025-07-06T00:56:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T07:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=34145"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:06:03","slug":"upper-ruffey-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2025\/07\/upper-ruffey-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Ruffey Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34146\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/256_6499-RAW-12-photo-photomerge-panorama-upper-ruffey-lake-clear.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34146\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/256_6499-RAW-12-photo-photomerge-panorama-upper-ruffey-lake-clear.jpg\" alt=\"12-photo photomerge panorama upper ruffey lake\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upper Ruffey Lake panorama (California &#8211; June 2025)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The hike to this lake is a nice day trip from Ashland. About an hour and a half drive south of Ashland, you&#8217;ll want to start at the &#8220;Pacific Crest Trail &#8211; Etna Summit trailhead&#8221;. If 4+ miles isn&#8217;t enough for you, there are several longer options including summiting Etna Mountain (the far left peak&#8211;mostly hidden by trees in the foreground&#8211;in this photo), <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2021\/02\/smith-lake-from-the-pct\/>Smith Lake<\/a>, and\/or Meeks Meadow Lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hike to this lake is a nice day trip from Ashland. About an hour and a half drive south of Ashland, you&#8217;ll want to start at the &#8220;Pacific Crest Trail &#8211; Etna Summit trailhead&#8221;. If 4+ miles isn&#8217;t enough for you, there are several longer options including summiting Etna Mountain (the far left peak&#8211;mostly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,87,101,10],"tags":[66,6,742,876,1429,160,181],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34149,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34145\/revisions\/34149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}