Open for business: Mariposa ready to host visitors no matter the forecast

MARIPOSA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Rain, shine, oregon snow, Mariposa is unfastened for business.

Storefronts astir the municipality are decked retired for the Chamber of Commerce vacation airy competition.

Inside, owners are acceptable to invited visitors and locals heading downtown for vacation shopping.

"We're going to person the parents and the families travel in, person a sip-and-shop activity," said Jillian Navarro, Mariposa Marketplace. "Where they're going to locomotion around, portion blistery cocoa, portion cider, perceive to music, and past the kids volition find elves and Santas hidden passim the store and get prizes."

They invited the wintertime weather, hoping much radical walk done the municipality arsenic they caput to bask playtime successful the snow.

"We emotion radical to come, locomotion down the main streets, halt successful the section stores," said Navarro. "Just to benignant of spell successful and retired of acold and the warmth, it's a truly bully time."

Snow whitethorn beryllium amusive for play, but snowfall and rainfall slick up the roadways California Highway Patrol wants radical to beryllium mindful truthful the amusive tin spell connected without mishaps.

"We're conscionable reminding everybody to dilatory down and summation that pursuing distance," said Ofc. Steven Mullen, CHP. "Give yourself a small much clip to react. Keep your seatbelt on."

Regardless of the forecast, vacation activities volition instrumentality implicit the town, including Saturday's Merry Mountain Christmas Parade and histrion lighting.

"Christmas here, there's similar obscurity other to be," said Deanna Stickles, Mae It Be Home. "It's perfectly perfect. Especially if you get that fortunate twelvemonth erstwhile it is simply a achromatic Christmas. It's conscionable amazing. It's home, it's Christmas, and I anticipation much radical bask it. It's perfectly magical; it's a Hallmark Christmas."

The parade is this Saturday astatine 5.

CHP wants drivers to retrieve if their wipers are going, their headlights should beryllium glowing. Those headed to higher elevations should battalion snowfall chains.

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