{"id":11,"date":"2026-08-15T18:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theread.online\/chillicothe\/fall-color-along-the-buckeye-trail\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T18:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:16:17","slug":"fall-color-along-the-buckeye-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theread.online\/chillicothe\/fall-color-along-the-buckeye-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall color along the Buckeye Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaf season in Ross County usually runs a week or two behind the northern part of the state, which catches visitors out most years.<\/p>\n<p>The stretch of the Buckeye Trail running through Tar Hollow and the surrounding state forest tends to hold color into the third week of October.<\/p>\n<p>Early morning is best for photographs, before the haze sets in over the valleys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaf season in Ross County usually runs a week or two behind the northern part of the state, which catches visitors out most years. The stretch of the Buckeye Trail &#8230; <a title=\"Fall color along the Buckeye Trail\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theread.online\/chillicothe\/fall-color-along-the-buckeye-trail\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fall color along the Buckeye Trail\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_theread_dek":"The southern Ohio stretch peaks later than most people expect. Here is when to go.","_theread_byline":"Wade Cell","_theread_photo_credit":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"issues":[9],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors","issue-2026-09"],"theread_word_count":63,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theread.online\/chillicothe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theread.online\/chillicothe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theread.online\/chillicothe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theread.online\/chillicothe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theread.online\/chillicothe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theread.online\/chillicothe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theread.online\/chillicothe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theread.online\/chillicothe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theread.online\/chillicothe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}