{"id":9071,"date":"2015-08-10T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/?p=9071"},"modified":"2015-08-10T18:15:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T18:15:09","slug":"destination-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/destination-restaurants\/","title":{"rendered":"Destination Restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, for those of us who live up valley dining in Basalt, Carbondale and Glenwood Springs is destination dining. \u00a0The question is how to make it to the destination.<\/p>\n<p>While traveling by vehicle along highway 82 is the most common way we travel through the\u00a0Roaring Fork Valley, the more scenic and adventurous mode of travel would be a bike ride down the Rio Grande trail. \u00a0This old railroad bed which is paved dirt &amp; asphalt with a\u00a0grade of no more than 8 percent makes for a casual bike ride. \u00a0This bike bath follows the Roaring Fork River for long stretches from Aspen all the way to Glenwood Springs.<\/p>\n<p>While many bicyclists bike only as far as Woody Creek, Basalt isn&#8217;t much farther and the dining options are far more varied. \u00a0Historic Downtown Basalt is an idilic slice of America and well worth the stop while either biking or driving.<\/p>\n<p>View our full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatbasalt.com\/all-basalt-restaurants\/\">list of\u00a0restaurants in Basalt<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historic Downtown Basalt is an idilic slice of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basalt-restaurants","author-streck2yahoo-com","basalt-restaurants"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eataspen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/bridge-trees.jpg?fit=500%2C375&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aUGV-2mj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9074,"href":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071\/revisions\/9074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}