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November 2, 2009, 3:42 pm
Quinault Graves Creek Road and campground will
reopen Friday, Olympic National Park Superintendent Karen Gustin
announced today. The campground will provide typical winter
season services, with privy toilets and no running water; flush
toilets, and running water will be provided for thesummer season beginning in late March.“We
are thankful for the patience and support of the greater Quinault
community for restoring access to this area,” Gustin said. “Throughout
the project, our goal has been to
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November 2, 2009, 3:35 pm
The National Park Service says roads leading to the interior of
Yellowstone National Park will close to automobile traffic on November 2.
Park officials say cars will not be able to travel to places
like Old Faithful and Fishing Bridge until the winter snowpack is
cleared in the spring. The closure allows the park to prepare for
snowmobile and snowcoach traffic, which will be allowed Dec.
15.
A handful of roads within the park already have been closed for
the season or because of construction.
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November 2, 2009, 3:32 pm
Mount Rainier National Park got its first full taste of winter
earlier this week. While the park has received several dustings of snow
already this fall, almost a foot of snow fell at Paradise Monday and
Tuesday, according to data from the Paradise weather station.
Park visitors need to remember
that the road to Paradise is closed each night just past Longmire. It
reopens each morning once snowplows have completed removing any new
snow.
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November 2, 2009, 3:03 pm
Sometimes
— especially these past couple of colorful weeks — Liz Weintraub
forgets she's exercising when she's out hiking the wooded property at
the Carl Sandburg Home.Weintraub
has been faithfully hiking a three-mile round-trip trail to a
mountaintop summit at the Carl Sandburg National Historic Site in Flat
Rock for the past four months as part of her fitness routine.
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October 22, 2009, 2:58 pm
Yellowstone National Park Lodges will offer “Lodging & Learning” packages this winter in Yellowstone National Park. The park’s winter season begins Dec. 18, 2009 with the opening of the Old Faithful Snow Lodge. The Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel opens Dec. 21, 2009. The lodges provide the only wintertime accommodations within the park. Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel will close for the season March 8, 2010, and Old Faithful Snow Lodge will close March 7, 2010.
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October 21, 2009, 2:51 pm
Weekend vacationers, hunters and traveling tourists be forewarned: Road closure season is here. Several
popular high-elevation routes in Rocky Mountain National Park and
Roosevelt National Forest are now closed off for the season.In Rocky Mountain National Park, Fall River Road is gated off for the season, park spokeswoman Kyle Patterson said.
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October 21, 2009, 2:05 pm
Park rangers say two popular
routes through Yosemite National Park are closed for the second time
this month because of snow and icy weather. Tioga Road, the highest elevation route through the Sierra Nevada, closed Monday to all traffic. Glacier
Point Road, one of the park's popular sightseeing paths, is also closed
as a storm passes through the region. The two scenic roads also closed
due to snowfall in the first week of October, and rangers are
evaluating whether they will open again this season.
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October 19, 2009, 4:16 pm
The public will once again be able to view the beauty of Cape Lookout from the top of its historic lighthouse.
Funding for repairs to allow the re-opening of the lighthouse was
announced Wednesday by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
during a teleconference with Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina. The news
of the funding comes during the ongoing commemoration of the 150th
anniversary of the lighthouse.
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October 19, 2009, 3:42 pm
Recently, a group of 40-plus people gathered in front of the Visitor's Center in Yosemite National Park for a quiet yet much-deserved 10-year anniversary celebration of the Yosemite Area Regional Transportation System."When we started 10 years ago, this had never been done," says Vikki Bauer, YARTS chairwoman of the board. "It was a pilot program, and there have been a lot of difficulties. But it has been successful, and we just wanted to celebrate that."
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October 19, 2009, 3:37 pm
Montana's summer tourism season wasn't as bad as expected - and
was far better than in surrounding states and most of the rest of
the country.
It helped that visitor numbers at the major national parks in
Montana soared above those for the 2008 season.
Visitation was bolstered by locals vacationing closer to home and
by publicity sparked by filmmaker Ken Burns' PBS documentary
featuring the nation's parks as "America's Best Idea," said Betsy
Baumgart, administrator of the Montana Promotions Division.
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