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dalej
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Apr 03, 2020

Big Bend National Park closed

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK TEMPORARILY CLOSED

The National Park Service announced today that effective April 3, Big Bend National Park and Rio Grande Wild & Scenic River will be temporarily closed to all visitors until further notice
  • Rice's avatar
    Rice
    Explorer III
    dalej wrote:
    It's not just the park. Brewster county is closed down.

    And according to this map, Brewster County hasn't had a single case of corona virus.

    https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2020/03/14/county-by-county-cases-of-coronavirus-across-texas/
    (updated April 17)

    In fact, there are cases of corona virus in every county from the Oklahoma border straight down to Brewster County, where it stops. In adjacent Pecos County, which has 15,000 people compared to Brewster County's 10,000 people, there are five cases.
  • It's not just the park. Brewster county is closed down.
  • This may not be a bad thing; I was there last year during the gvmnt shutdown
    and the NP was really empty of people. I stayed at Terlingua (stone throw
    from the southern entrance) and had the whole place to myself (well almost!).

    No traffic, no backups, almost no one on the hiking trails..........etc.

    They did not block the entrances, so you could drive into the park as normal.

    I saw some people on the primitive sites along River? Road.
  • It’s a sign of the times. We’ll get through it. TY for posting.

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