Yosemite National Park: Curry Village cabins to close for good
Some of Yosemite National Park’s popular Curry Village accommodations will close for good due to an unstable cliff, announced National Park Service officials earlier today. See Associated Press article, “Rock threat danger closes part of Yosemite lodging.”
Yosemite, with more than 3 million visitors annually, is no stranger to sketchy cliffs: 14 people have died in more than 530 rockfalls that have occurred in tourist-heavy Yosemite Valley since 1857. The most recent reminder of this unpredictable force of nature occurred on Oct. 8, 2008, when a rock slide at Curry Village injured three people and destroyed several cabins. The slide, which rained “the equivalent of 570 dump trucks of rock,” onto the valley, originated from the overlooking Glacier Point cliff face.
Of the 618 cabins at Curry Village, about half have been unavailable to guests since last month’s incident. Today’s announcement marks the permanent closure of 233 cabins total.
According to the AP article, more rockfalls have occurred at Curry Village in the last 10 years than in any other part of Yosemite Valley.
– Susan Derby, Special to the Los Angeles Times
[Photo: Curry Village cabins damaged by October 2008 rock slide; Tom Trujillo / Associated Press]
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December 2nd, 2008 at 8:11 am
I wonder why DNC, the company that runs the lodging for the park, is still taking reservations for Curry Village for this Summer? Their website indicates that everything is hunky dory.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
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December 11th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
I was there with my wife and two small children on oct 8th. Scariest day of my life, Do Not Say There. There was a small slide on Oct 7th that nobody mentions, and they let us stay there anyway. Ruined our vacation, but we left safe.