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The easiest way to explore RV-friendly National Park campgrounds.
Here’s the definitive guide to National Park System campgrounds where RVers can park their rigs.
Our app is packed with RVing- specific details on more than 250 campgrounds in more than 70 national parks.
You’ll also find stories about RVing in the parks, tips helpful if you’ve just recently become an RVer, and useful planning suggestions.
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Having this in one place is more than the NPS is providing.
Really appreciate it !
Thank you, Kurt. You are doing a fantastic job of keeping the updates of closures and partial shutdowns available for us. We appreciate your work.
Thank you for this Kurt!
The enitre system should be shut down, as one cohesive group, and people should stay away until fully staffed again.
BS. Fresh air and sunshine are two of the BEST things one can do for good health. Closing the national parks was a stupid, reactionary, kneejerk and ignorant decision.
Thank you for providing this list. We hope that ALL of Yellowstone National Park will quickly be added as well. There are 4 major entances to the park which should all be closed ASAP and remain closed until Memorial Day as a minimum..
Yes. It is impossible to practice any type of social distancing in the vastness of YNP!
What good will that do. Who is going to get infected on a trail?
Thank you for providing this list. Those of us that live near Yellowstone National Park hope that the park's 4 entranes will be closed ASAP and remain that way until at least Memorial Day (or sooner if things get better).
Again, thanks for your work on putting this together.
Pretty good list-but not all inclusive-check ahead there are closed VCs not on the list
Valley Forge National Park has closed all road, parking lots etc -- virtually closing the park to walkers, joggers, cyclists etc. Is that a Fed mandate?
Unfortunately, every state's governor was delegated the decision making authority, so it's a state by state order depending on COVID-19 cases, and number dying daily in each state.
I understand this virus. but the government has to understand what toxic mold poisoning is done to people they need to step up. closing all these national parks and all these places is not going to help for people like myself. We need pristine air we can't be at home because our homes made a sick from the toxic mold in it so when are they going to help us there's thousands of people that are homeless because of this toxic mold when are they going to step up and help the rest
Hope to see you soon! we had hoped to visit the National parks this year for our Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary (08/30/30/70) year & hopefully stay in most of the lodges therein. Hopefully we will be able to pursue our quest. Visiting RockyMtn National park & Mesa Verde on ou honeymoon, were highlights of an adventure that continues to this day.
Please add Ocmulgee Mounds NHP in Macon, GA to the closed VC list. Thanks!
Please add Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park - Seattle Unit and the Outdoor Recreation Information Center in Seattle, WA. Thanks!
Acadia is also completely closed
Wind Cave visitor center/cave tours are closed. Also Elk Mountain Campground at Wind Cave is closed. Thanks for keeping this updated!
Mesa Verde is missing from the closed units list. Thanks for maintaining a comprehensive list when things are changing so quickly.
Thanks to all who pointed to overlooked closures. We *think* we're up to date as of March 31, 8 a.m. Mountain, though without checking with each and every one of the 419 units we can't be sure. We'll update when new information becomes available.
You are filling a great void that isn't being filled by the NPS by provding a one stop place with this informaiton. Worth a donation to NPT! Thank you
Kurt - no listings here for North Cascades, [VC in Sedro Wooley co-housed with USFS] wilderness back country including Stehekin?
Thanks Rick. Got NOCA's campgrounds, boat ramps, and access roads added.
Sick people and those having been exposed to the virus are under quarantine. All others are encouraged to stay home unless they have a job deemed "Essential". Some don't take this pandemic seriously and continue to do whatever and go wherever they want. If the parks were closed if would deter people from going and may get their attention that it's critical to stay home. Why put the parks communities and their employees at risk? Is revenue from the parks more important than potntial lives that could be affected? Please close the parks.
Thankyou,Thankyou,Thankyou for this information.....very thorough and concise....you are a saint.
Our need for these park closures explained. Warning: Don't die laughing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMBh-eo3tvE&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR...
Valles Caldera Nationa Preserve, Open dawn to dusk, Entrance/Visitor Station closed. Main access road closed. You may day hike from parking along route 4. So far not seeing crowds like other parks. Everyone be safe.
I appreciate the update. Sad that we're taking away the joy of the outdoor beauty in this time of uncertainty. For the most part, visiting these parks keeps completely within the standards of social distancing. There is no danger in enjoying the outdoors, but there is danger in not allowing people to go outside.
When the COVID-19 is "over", will all the national parks open back up on the same day? Has there been any discussion on when that might be at this point?
Do you know if they refund for the park pass? I bought National Park pass begining of this year and planed to have grand circle visit this summer.
Do you prolong validity time for annual pass due to Corona
This isn't about a virus. Most of these shutdown areas are very dispersed!
Is there a way to see which national parks are open?
Hello,
I got an email from recreation.gov stating my Cliff Palace tour at Mesa Verde for June 15th is canceled and refunded. Says due to a 'location closure for Mesa Verde NP'
Wondering if anyone knows if that means the park in its entirety will also be closed, because I also have a Far View Lodge reservation for June 14th.
Thanks,
Dan, as the list above states, Mesa Verde is closed. No reopening date has been announced. Same goes for the lodge, unfortunately.
Thanks Kurt for the info. Here's to hoping the parks re-open at least in part for the summer. I appreciate your efforts & listen to the pod every week
You're quite welcome, Dan, and thanks for the kind words on the podcast. I think you'll like tomorrow's show: We've got Ranger Doug talking about his search for the missing WPA prints.
So sad to see the most beautiful places in this country closed to our citizens. As important as the parks are to us they must be protected from us. The staff required to maintain and keep our parks clean and protected is essential. Unfortunately without the proper staff these places would be negatively affected. So support your parks from a distance for now while waiting for the day when we all can get out to safely and responsibly enjoy them.
Thank you for this list, it shows what a bunch of fearful sheep many are ...all parks should be opeed ASAP as we now know more about the virus and that we have been had. I would think the exchange of money is as dangerous as anything and we haven't required that we put it in the dishwasher before and after use or banned its use. Looks like the safest place to be is outside and not holed up in your residence.
What a collective fear and panic - amplified by the media and the bureaucrats in NPS and everywhere in the federal and state governments - could do: to close the places proven to be the most safe and powerful for keeping human body healthy and capable to fight viruses. Shame on those keeping the parks closed.
We're going to have the coronavirus for a long time, until we get to herd immunity. The lockdowns were to prevent the hospitals from being overrun. Good news! They weren't overrun, even in New York, even when we were completely unprepared for the epidemic. Let people make their own decisions moving forward. If you don't want to have a job or go on vacation, then fine, stay at home. The problem is, so many people cooped up inside are seeing people at the beach and getting jealous. That's why they're mad!
Hey there, Mr/Ms Why Not? I'd guess you are not in a medical profession? Sounds to me - from local media, online sources, interviews with caregivers - Emergency rooms and ICU's have certainly had their moments of overwhelm. It might dodge your counting, as it tends to cluster -- first in NYC, later Miami or Seattle -- makes anecdotal information, no matter how dreadful individually, not so readily informational. Trust me ---- hospital resources have been strained all over the place.
Rick, I work for a large medical center that planned to open up a big field hospital. Guess what, we didn't open it up because the projected flood of patients never came (and yes, the projections factored in social distancing). Our docs are saying we're going to have to live with the virus for two years. Staying inside isn't going to make it go away. Let people take their own health and circumstances into account and decide how to proceed from there. Again, Rick, if you want to stay inside forever, I'm not advocating that anybody should stop you. I currently have a job, but definitely won't for much longer if the shutdown persists. I'm guessing the lockdowners are either financially independent or have other guaranteed income streams. Good for you, stay inside. The rest of us want to work and go on vacation.
Why Not - Choice and personal responsibility are anathema to some. Earlier in this or some other NPT thread someone made the comment that people could go out if they pledged to not seek COVID treatment. I've seen that line of thought elsewhere as well. That is exactly why single payer healthcare should be avoided at all costs. "You don't live the way we want, you don't get healthcare." No choice, no personal responsibility. There is no science to this lock down. Science doesn't change every week but the "recommendations" have been all over the board contradicting themselves within days. This is not about a learned response to COVID, it is about control. Bottom, line there are some people that are happy to be controlled and sit home living off the government teet and there are those that want to control their own life, get out, go to work and earnm their keep for the betterment of themselves and the country. Just as our Founding Fathers envisioned.
ec-"Science doesn't change every week"
Yes it does-science changes as the data and knowns/unkowns change-This basic disconnect is why some science deniers can't deal with either climate change or now COVID-19.
The science doesn't change but scientists interpretations do. Which is why one must wonder how far we should take the advice of "scientist" when the follow week the advice will be just the opposite.
It doesn't make sense to me why outdoor parks must be completely closed! If course I believe we should be careful in light of the virus, but couldn't there be enforced temporary regulations instead ? So many people love the outdoors, it is a healthy environment, and one that people would be willing to implement as necessary for everyone's benefit.
Since when did "science" become infallible? The one thing this pandemic proves is that no government was prepared for it. So,do you think they are prepared for any scientist that disagrees with them? The moment one emerged in China, a doctor, he was suppressed--and then died. And now we finally hear the truth about the FBI. Nothing has changed since J. Edgar Hoover. Who is this shutdown benefitting? Who will make billions from it on the other end? That's the question, not who has the science. Garbage in, garbage out, applies there, too.
Would you be able to update this list as the National Parks begin to re-open? Thanks for all the information.
We will try to the best of our abilities...
Yes Be sure to restrict the healthy Just remember the Flu is a Covid Virus. So is the Cold. They also kill the immune compromised.
WE should shut down the world and all suffer....Remenber to live in fear.
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