News, Tips & Bargains : Most National Parks Reopen in Australia
In the two weeks since containment of Australia’s massive wildfires, all but three of the Queensland region’s 70 national parks have reopened.
At the peak of the fires, which blackened 1.5 million acres, two dozen parks were closed. Now, officials report, just two of those remain entirely closed: Royal National Park, which was 99% burned, and Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park. The 37,099-acre Royal National Park lies about 20 miles south of Sydney.
Though most of Blue Mountains National Park is open, the preserve’s Grose Valley and Blackheath areas remain closed.
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