RMNP joining other National Parks

[Thom02099]

...in closing. Announced this evening on local news and confirmed H E R E - ROMO closed, Rocky Mountain National Park now closed until further notice. This was at the request of the Mayor of Estes Park, as sent to the Secretary of the Department of Interior. In part, he pleaded for closure so that health care systems in Estes Park would not be overwhelmed by demand. Estes Park has a sizable elderly population and his belief is that the system can only serve local needs and not the influx of tourists seen each year.

[Lwiddis]

That mayor needs more to do other than preaching fear.



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