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Friday, October 4, 2013
Tech Monumental panoramas of 5 places you can't visit right now
Posted By Desiree Kane on Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:33 PM
By now you've heard that the government is suspending all "non-essential" services thanks to bipartisan bickering in Washington.
1. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo.
2. Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz.
3. Death Valley, Calif./Nev.
4.Yosemite National Park, N. Calif.
5. Shenandoah National Park, VA
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The National Park Service will close more than 400 national parks and museums, including Yosemite National Park in California, Alcatraz in San Francisco, and the Statue of Liberty in New York. The last time this happened during the 1995-96 shutdown, some 7 million visitors were turned away.So, to fuel your rage and mine, here are some epic panoramas of five places you can't visit right now even if you wanted to, lest you be turned away like it's 1995 all over again:
Source: Washington Post
1. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo.
2. Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz.
3. Death Valley, Calif./Nev.
4.Yosemite National Park, N. Calif.
5. Shenandoah National Park, VA
For more commentary, follow me on Twitter @dbirdy, for more photos peep my Flickr and to see all videos, subscribe to my YouTube channel here!
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