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Padlin
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Jan 15, 2018

Goverment Shutdowns

Without getting political...

We've got most of a week reserved in Chiricahua NM shortly after this weeks deadline, will be on the road till then.

Has anyone been in or been stopped from entering a government campground due to a shutdown? I take it they just lock the gate or some such so you can't get in, do you get reimbursed or notified?
  • In October 2013, we stopped at Glacier NP, and they were running skeleton staff in the St Mary Visitor Center, late in the afternoon. The turnstile gates weren't manned, so we just drove in for a snoop.
  • jplante4 wrote:
    Kinda like a kid throwing a tantrum.

    Not kind of like that... EXACTLY THAT.
  • Last time there was no real warning. They just came out with signs and crime scene tape and roped off entrances, even to those places where no government employees required to open. Kinda like a kid throwing a tantrum.

    Do you have a backup?

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