(WHBL) – As more and more people emerge from the cold weather season and covid, the Wisconsin DNR is expanding operations at State Parks and other DNR-managed lands beginning on Friday.
As of April 30th, observation towers and playgrounds will be open for the first time in over a year. Those will include Parnell Tower in the Kettle Moraine State Forest, and the playground at Kohler-Andrae State Park that had been closed due to the pandemic.
Participation in park activities will also expand, as volunteer group sizes increase to 50 people, capacity for open-air shelters, amphitheaters and outdoor group campgrounds increase to 100 people, and non-DNR-led permit capacity increases from 50, to 100 people. And stand-alone concession facilities will open to the public at 50% capacity including staff.
And although federal guidelines on masking outdoors have been updated in light of increasing vaccinations against COVID-19, the DNR continues to encourage social distancing and face coverings be used when you can’t be at least 6 feet apart from others.
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