At Yellowstone National Park in Montana, George Nell, a maintenance ranger for the National Park Service’s North District, shovels snow from the entrance to the restrooms at the Mammoth campground. (Deby Dixon/For The Washington Post)— Jay Brown and Michelle Tukel picked a surreal weekend to visit sprawling Joshua Tree National Park. Some national parks were open, but unsupervised. The National Parks Conservation Association estimated that approximately a third of the 417 National Park Service sites were completely closed Saturday. They keep doing this.”Dixon reported from Yellowstone National Park and Crandall reported from New York.

Source: Washington Post January 20, 2018 23:22 UTC