Trips cut short after Yosemite National Park announces park closure due to blizzard warning

MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- On Thursday, Yosemite National Park announced it would beryllium closing owed to the aggravated weather. The parkland and its hotels volition beryllium closed done Sunday day for now.

"We consciousness that the prudent determination and the safest happening to bash is to institute this closure," said Scott Gediman with Yosemite National Park. "This is not thing we instrumentality lightly. This is not thing we bash precise often."

Action News checked successful a edifice successful Oakhurst. The edifice says it already saw immoderate cancellations due to the fact that of the closure.

"It's nature, you can't assistance it," said Jacek Jansen, who traveled each the mode from the Netherlands. "We'll marque the champion of it."

Jansen was lone astatine the parkland for a fewer hours earlier helium had to leave. He wanted to sojourn the parkland implicit the adjacent fewer days.

"We wanted to spell to Glacier Point oregon thing similar that," said Jansen. "We wanted to conscionable spot immoderate nature."

Jansen plans to enactment astatine his edifice successful Oakhurst, earlier traveling to Monterey. With terrible upwind expected, the CHP is besides urging drivers to person a program successful place.

"Be ready," said Officer Javier Ruvalcaba with CHP Madera. "Have your conveyance acceptable to deed the road. Make definite your tires are successful bully shape. Make definite the windshield wipers are working."

Drivers should besides cheque the Caltrans Quick Nap app for concatenation controls oregon roadworthy closures. To hole for this storm, CHP said much officers volition beryllium retired to assistance respond to emergencies.

"Let the radical who request to beryllium retired there, beryllium the ones retired there," said Ruvalcaba. "This mode it allows america to respond to those radical sooner."

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