Alana Wise

A contingency plan for the Park Service says that park roads, lookouts, and trails will generally remain accessible to visitors, but other services such as road and trail condition updates

would not be provided.

At closed park locations, services will be stripped to the bone, meaning no trash collection, restrooms, road maintenance, or visitor information.

In the past, skeleton operations have led to vandalism at parks, as well as major sanitation and ecological issues.

As a result, some park advocates have called for all parks to be closed until the shutdown concludes.

Alana Wise, NPR News.