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**Alert** Please Share! Biggest Storms in 10 Years to Impact Ocotillo Wells SVRA! The staff here at Ocotillo Wells SVRA highly encourages all visitors that had plans to come out this weekend to move their trip to another weekend. It does rain here, it has rained out here and the rains predicted this weekend will […]

Zion Canyon Scenic Drive is now open to the Temple of Sinawava. https://www.nps.gov/zion/learn/news/sd-reopened.htm Source:: Zion Canyon Scenic Drive Reopened after Rock Slide       

The California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) and the California Tahoe Conservancy (Conservancy) are holding a public meeting to solicit comments on an effort to upgrade recreational facilities at Kings Beach State Recreation Area (Kings Beach SRA). The original date, scheduled for Wednesday, January 18, 2017, has been rescheduled to February 2, 2017. Some

Twentynine Palms, CA Joshua Tree National Park – Over 2.5 million people visited Joshua Tree National Park in calendar year 2016, up over 500,000 from 2015.  While that is good news for the park and surrounding communities, it has translated into long entrance lines, full campgrounds and congested parking.

The National Park Service announced last Friday the release of the Off-Road Vehicle Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement for Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. The plan analyzes a range of alternatives and actions for managing off-road use of motor vehicles as well as on-road use of off-highway vehicles and street-legal all-terrain vehicles. Glen

SPRINGDALE, UT – The Zion Scenic Drive is closed just north of the Zion Lodge. At approximately 6 p.m. Friday night, Jan 16th, a large rock and debris slide occurred just north of the Grotto covering both lanes on the Scenic Drive. The slide was about the size of four car lengths, (approximately 200 tons of rock and

Saguaro National Park will be conducting additional road work January 17 to 24, 2017 – At the intersection of Sandario Road and Kinney Road (Site 902) – Construction crews will use a flagging operation to intermittently reduce traffic to one lane on Sandario Road between 9:00 AM and 3:00 PM to install traffic counting sensors.

SPRINGDALE, UT – Zion National Park’s Lower Emerald Pool Trail and a portion of Sand Bench Trail are closed. Recent winter weather, snow, ice and rain have caused several rock and debris slides along the Lower Emerald Pool Trail and river undercutting on the Sand Bench Trail, between the Lodge and Court of the Patriarchs.

JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Twentynine Palms, California – The Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service will conduct a joint public meeting on January 18, 2017, from 6pm-9pm at UC Riverside Palm Desert, 75080 Frank Sinatra Drive, Palm Desert, CA 92211. The public will have the opportunity to comment on the Secretary of Interior’s

California State Parks reminds outdoor enthusiasts that winter recreation can be hazardous. Every year, thousands of individuals and families enjoy California’s winter season by playing in the snow, fishing, walking/hiking a trail, boating, off-highway recreation or visiting historical sites. The recent winter storms have changed the state’s outdoor landscape with snow in many higher elevation