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Now that the state has stepped back from the Regional Stay Home order that banned overnight vacations and closed restaurant patios in most of the state, county officials are deciding what businesses can open and how they will be allowed to operate.
Most counties, including Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Francisco and Mono, since Monday have reverted to previous “purple tier” restrictions that permit leisure travelers to stay overnight at hotels and other lodgings. A spokesman for the California Hotel & Lodging Assn., Pete Hillan, said he was unaware of any counties still forbidding overnight vacations. Here are some places starting to reopen:
Jan 26, 2021
Yosemite National Park is delaying its reopening to clear the damage from last week s high winds.
The park will remain closed until Saturday in order to clear roads and trails, mitigate hazard trees and restore safe conditions. It was expected to reopen today. Yosemite Valley Lodge and The Ahwahnee Hotel will open February 5 and Upper Pine Campground is expected to open February 8.
A year after the pandemic started, Yosemite National Park guests must now wear masks
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A sign explaining social distancing at Yosemite Falls on June 11, 2020 in Yosemite National Park, California.Ezra Shaw/Getty Images
For the last seven months, Yosemite National Park has encouraged, but not required, that visitors wear masks. Even when they were indoors. Even when hundreds attended a Thanksgiving dinner at the Ahwahnee hotel.
That is now a thing of the past. As one of his first actions on Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed a federal mandate requiring face coverings inside federal buildings and on land controlled by the federal government.
Updated on December 24, 2020 at 4:28 pm
Albert Grose
HAVEN T HUZZAH D! MUCH THIS YEAR? Few of us have, to be frank. For 2020 has been almost fully huzzah-less, in so many difficult ways. But there is a way to connect to a Christmassy, huzzah-ful spirit, without leaving home. And if you re a fan of the grand hotel that grandly sits within Yosemite Valley, inside Yosemite National Park, then you know that things are plenty huzzah-laden at an annual December dinner. It s the Bracebridge Dinner, in fact, a magnificent supper spectacular that extends over several pageant-packed hours. It s a tradition that s been happening at.
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Merry almost Christmas. Southern California has its very own Christmas berry called toyon, or California holly (
Heteromeles arbutifolia, for people who know their plants). You’re sure to see it along hillsides and trails at this time of year: clusters of bright red berries dangling from a tall shrub with long oval green leaves. They’re not for eating, just admiring.
Supposedly, stands of toyon on local hills were mistaken for holly and attached to the name of L.A. s most famous neighborhood. “This idea of floral origins for Hollywood is romantic,” Lila Higgins of L.A. s Natural History Museum writes in “How Hollywood Didn’t Get Its Name.” “It’s also not true. Hollywood got its name for a much more mundane reason: Someone wealthy liked the sound of it.”