WSJ News Exclusive | Grand Canyon Stays Open During Coronavirus Pandemic Despite Pleas to Close

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WSJ News Exclusive | Grand Canyon Stays Open During Coronavirus Pandemic Despite Pleas to Close
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Many local residents want the Grand Canyon closed, worried that visitors will spread the coronavirus. “I find it infuriating and irresponsible that they have not closed the park yet.”

The Grand Canyon has stayed open during the coronavirus pandemic despite closures of most other major national parks and support for such a move by local officials, the nearby Navajo reservation, an Arizona congressman and even the park’s superintendent and the director of the National Park Service.

The Grand Canyon is one of the last large national parks that remains open, following closures over the past two weeks of Yosemite, Yellowstone and Great Smoky Mountains. About 120 of the 419 national park units have closed or...

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