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Coping With Coronavirus: Phased Openings Coming To National Parks

When the gates to national parks swing open in the coming weeks, expect to find initial restrictions as to what you can do and where you can go, restrictions that will be eased based on the current coronavirus status. In some cases, states might require non-residents coming into their states for non-work-related purposes to self-isolate for two weeks.

Details Beginning To Surface On How National Parks Will Reopen

Weather is warming across the country, and desires to get outside and into the National Park System are growing, but exactly how parks will go about reopening continues to be a work in progress not entirely ready for public disclosure. At least one major park concessionaire, unable to safely house workers, announced Tuesday that two of its lodges in Grand Teton National Park are not expected to open this year.

Colorado's 'Reopening' Brings Calls For Cautious Return To Estes Park, Rocky Mountain National Park

With Colorado now entering a scaled-down phase of its coronavirus response, transitioning from “Stay at Home” to “Safer at Home,” Estes Park’s Chamber of Commerce has launched a full-court press to provide its members with consistent information to ensure a safe, yet limited, reopening of local lodging and curbside retail service.

UPDATE | Wyoming To Ease Covid-19 Restrictions At Month's End, Doesn't Ensure National Park Openings

Wyoming officials by month's end plan to ease off on restrictions put in place to slow the spread of coronavirus, but that doesn't mean access to Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks or other park system units in the state will quickly return.

UPDATE | Coping With Coronavirus: Great Sand Dunes Closes, Cape Cod Deals With Garbage, Vandalism

While staff at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Colorado prepared to close the park Friday night, Guadalupe Mountains National Park closed earlier in the day, and staff at Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts was dealing with garbage and vandalism.

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