{"id":16343,"date":"2021-12-21T04:54:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T12:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=16343"},"modified":"2023-10-18T19:58:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T02:58:35","slug":"california-nbg-anchor-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2021\/12\/21\/california-nbg-anchor-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"California NBG Anchor Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16344\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2021\/12\/21\/california-nbg-anchor-cities\/screen-shot-2021-12-20-at-9-23-11-am\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-20-at-9.23.11-AM.jpeg?fit=508%2C396&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"508,396\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1639992196&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen Shot 2021-12-20 at 9.23.11 AM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-20-at-9.23.11-AM.jpeg?fit=508%2C396&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-16344 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-20-at-9.23.11-AM.jpeg?resize=512%2C400\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/routes\/36378745\"><strong>San Francisco<\/strong><\/a> | <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/routes\/36378745\">Palo Alto<\/a><\/strong> | <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/routes\/36380961\">San Jose<\/a><\/strong> | <a href=\"https:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/routes\/36380895\"><strong>Santa Cruz<\/strong><\/a> | <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/routes\/36381051\">Oakland<\/a><\/strong> | <a href=\"https:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/routes\/36381178\"><strong>Napa<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/routes\/36381262\"><strong>Davis<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/routes\/36381312\"><strong>Sacramento<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">T<\/span>o bike across America on our route, you can start in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">San Francisco<\/span> or in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Santa Cruz<\/span> at the ocean\u2019s edge. Or you can start in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Oakland<\/span>, as did Thomas Stevens in 1884 when he became the first man to pedal a bicycle across America. You can learn more about that ride and San Francisco\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NBGBikingCities\/SanFrancisco\/index.php\">HERE<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/BikeRoute.com\">back<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco | Palo Alto | San Jose | Santa Cruz | Oakland | Napa | Davis | Sacramento &nbsp;&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2021\/12\/21\/california-nbg-anchor-cities\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-4fB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8195,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2014\/05\/20\/san-franciscos-foremost-green-hotel-the-intercontinental-san-francisco-to-launch-sf-to-dc-national-bicycle-greenway-route-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":16343,"position":0},"title":"San Francisco&#8217;s Foremost Green Hotel, the InterContinental San Francisco, to Launch SF to DC National Bicycle Greenway  Route","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"May 20, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"San Francisco's (and California's) largest green hotel (550 rooms), as certified by the U.S. Green Building Council (more) \u00a0\u00a0 came on as the anchor hotel for San Francisco yesterday. 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