Isle Royale is a 571,800-acre, heavily forested island in tempestuous Lake Superior that under the National Park Service captures a snapshot of northwoods past, one that has been manipulated by succeeding generations of visitors. Yet it's a place where one can disappear into a vestige of wilderness, cast for a rare species of trout, or relax in a cabin or lodge room and enjoy the placid surroundings.

Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado will have limited road access by vehicle but will remain accessible to pedestrians and bicycles during the lapse in federal appropriations. Due to road conditions from snowfall Saturday and blowing and drifting snow and ice combined with the inability to snowplow, sand, or otherwise maintain the roads, gates are closed past the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center on U.S. 36, past the Fall River Entrance on U.S. 34, past the Wild Basin Entrance on the Wild Basin Road and at the Grand Lake Entrance on U.S. 34.

Though most visitor amenities in the National Park System have been derailed by the partial government shutdown, the shuttles in Zion National Park are running thanks to funding from the state of Utah.

The Gettysburg Foundation and the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association have provided donations to match federal funds to preserve monuments at Gettysburg National Military Park. Thanks to partner support and federal funding from the Helium Act, a total of $188,129 is available to do repairs and preservation maintenance for more than 350 civil war monuments on the Gettysburg battlefield.