In response to the Amendment to Directive 14 of the Second\u00a0Executive Order 2020-04 issued by Gov. Ralph DLG Torres,\u00a0all areas of\u00a0the American Memorial Park are closed\u00a0to encourage the residents of Saipan to comply with social distancing guidance in support of federal and local efforts to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus on our island.<\/p>\n
Effective yesterday, March 31, 2020, all access points into American Memorial Park along pathways, roads, and parking areas were closed. The park will offer no services outside those that support emergency visitor safety and resource protection.\u00a0The marinas at Smiling Cove and Outer Cove are also closed by order of the governor.\u00a0\u201cWe will notify the public when we resume full operations and provide updates on our website and social media channels,\u201d said the National Parks Service, which operates the park, in a notice yesterday.<\/p>\n
The NPS encourages everyone to take advantage of the many digital tools already available to explore American Memorial Park.\u00a0Check out its website (nps.gov\/amme) and follow @americanmemorialpark. (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In response to the Amendment to Directive 14 of the Second\u00a0Executive Order 2020-04 issued by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[268],"class_list":["post-320199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-american-memorial-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}