National Park News

From November 1, 2008, through April 30, 2009, the Jordan Pond House parking lot and adjacent access drives will be closed to allow construction of improvements to bus traffic circulation.

With considerable precipitation falling in the park over the past few days, fire managers have declared the end of the 2008 wildland fire season in Yosemite National Park. However, fire managers will continue to monitor weather patterns and implement prescribed burns as conditions permit.

U.S. Veterans to be Admitted Free-of-Charge to Zion National Park on
Veterans Day, November 11

A proposed rule concerning winter use in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks is now out for public review and comment.

Between November 1 and November 30, the one-way section of Park Loop Road from Paradise Hill Road to Otter Cliff Road (traveling clockwise) will be closed between dark and 7 a.m. to protect deer from poaching.

Portions of the Skyline Drive, the famed mountain road through Shenandoah National Park, will be closed at night during hunting season, Park Superintendent Martha Bogle announced today.  She noted that this is the twenty-ninth year that this closure has been undertaken and stressed its importance at reducing illegal hunting activity within the park, a sanctuary for wildlife, during the Commonwealth's hunting season outside the park.

Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks are seeking public comment on a new plan to guide the management of winter use in the parks.