Week of Nov 9–15, 2026

What's open this week — and what to know before you go.

ParkReady Guides are weekly entrance briefings for America's busiest national parks: which entrances are open, this week's official closures and weather, and what to prepare for at that entrance and season — bears, bison, thermal ground, ice, flash floods, altitude. Every fact links to the National Park Service or National Weather Service page it came from.

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First batch · 6 parks · 17 entrances

National parks this week

Mid-November is shoulder season: many entrances and high roads are closed, services are thin, and weather turns fast. We only publish pages for entrances that are open; closures are listed on each park page.

WY · MT · ID

Yellowstone

Winter shoulder season: only the North ↔ Northeast road is open to cars.

North EntranceOpen to cars (year-round road)
Northeast EntranceOpen to cars, reached via Gardiner

Closed / limited: West Entrance; South Entrance; East Entrance

Yosemite

Snow on the way: Tioga and Glacier Point roads close Nov 12 at 5 pm.

Arch Rock EntranceOpen — Hwy 140 / El Portal Road
Big Oak Flat EntranceOpen — weekday delays
South EntranceOpen — Winter Storm Watch
Hetch Hetchy EntranceDaylight only — closes for snow

Closed / limited: Tioga Pass Entrance; Glacier Point Road

Grand Canyon

Day use only on the South Rim: overnight lodging suspended, bring your own water.

South EntranceOpen 24/7 — day use, bring water
Desert View (East) EntranceOpen 24/7
North Rim EntranceLimited day use — no services, closing soon

Closed / limited: Phantom Ranch, Bright Angel Campground, Black & Silver bridges, entire North Kaibab Trail

TN · NC

Great Smoky Mountains

Winter Weather Advisory on the Tennessee side; snow showers at Newfound Gap.

Gatlinburg Entrance (Sugarlands)Open — Winter Weather Advisory
Townsend EntranceOpen — Winter Weather Advisory
Cherokee Entrance (Oconaluftee)Open — elk area

Closed / limited: Seasonal secondary roads

Zion

Shuttle season ends Nov 28; cool days, cold canyon water, storms Friday night.

South EntranceOpen — shuttle through Nov 28
East EntranceOpen — gravel section, size limits
Kolob Canyons EntranceOpen — may close for snow or ice

Closed / limited: Watchman Trail; Hidden Canyon / Observation Point from Zion Canyon

Glacier

Going-to-the-Sun Road closed at Avalanche Creek and Jackson Glacier Overlook for the season.

West EntranceOpen — road to Avalanche Creek
St. Mary EntranceOpen — road to Jackson Glacier Overlook

Closed / limited: Going-to-the-Sun Road alpine section; Many Glacier and Two Medicine

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Risks for where you are

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Founded by Dr. Grant Lipman, former Stanford Emergency Medicine professor and director of its wilderness medicine fellowship. Chief Medical Officer: Dr. Colin Little, MD, FAWM.

How ParkReady works

Updated weekly. Sourced, not guessed.

Each week we pull official alerts and operating hours from the NPS Data API, read each park's conditions, roads and news pages, and grab National Weather Service point forecasts for every entrance. Pages show a "Week of" label and list every source, so you can check anything yourself.

We don't publish entrance wait times, bear sightings, or incident counts we can't source. If NPS hasn't said it, neither do we. Conditions change hourly in winter, so check the linked NPS page or call the park's road line the morning you go.

Follow official NPS rules, posted closures and ranger instructions. ParkReady Guides is not affiliated with the National Park Service.

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When signal drops, GOES steps in.

Put GOES on your phone before the entrance so wildlife, weather and injury guidance is ready once you're in the park — even with no signal.

Works with no cell service: interactive health assessment and 50+ visual how-to guides, available offline.
Location-specific risks: wildlife (bears, venomous snakes), hypothermia, frostbite, heat illness, altitude, ticks, poisonous plants, UV and smoke/air quality.
200+ prevention tips across 60+ medical topics, also available offline.
Built by wilderness medicine physicians: founded by Dr. Grant Lipman, former Stanford Emergency Medicine professor and director of its wilderness medicine fellowship; Chief Medical Officer Dr. Colin Little, MD, FAWM.

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Sources

Where this week's information comes from

Fetched Thu Nov 12, 2026 (JST), which is Wed Nov 11 evening in US time zones. We don't publish wait times, bear sightings or conditions we can't source. Check the official pages before you go — they're updated more often than we are.