{"id":23056,"date":"2020-05-24T17:24:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T23:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=64761"},"modified":"2020-05-25T08:24:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T14:24:30","slug":"memorial-day-weekend-visitors-not-deterred-by-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/memorial-day-weekend-visitors-not-deterred-by-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day weekend visitors not deterred by pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.1230769230769\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-64761-227\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled gallery-container\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/05\/DSC_6587-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/05\/DSC_6587-1024x684.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com | Marilou Randall, co-owner of Never Summer Mountain Products, said she didn't know what to expect this Memorial Day weekend, but it seems neither the pandemic nor the weather dampened her business much.\" class=\"swift-gallery-slide h-100\" readability=\"0.45491803278689\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10.918032786885\">\n<p><strong>Marilou Randall, co-owner of Never Summer Mountain Products, said she didn\u2019t know what to expect this Memorial Day weekend, but it seems neither the pandemic nor the weather dampened her business much.<\/strong><br \/>McKenna Harford \/ <a href=\"mailto:mharford@skyhinews.com\">mharford@skyhinews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/05\/DSC_6587-1024x684.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/05\/DSC_6583-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/05\/DSC_6583-1024x684.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com | By Sunday, the crowds had thinned, but plenty of people were visible recreating, shopping and grabbing food.\" class=\"swift-gallery-slide h-100\" readability=\"0\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9.3758389261745\">\n<p><strong>By Sunday, the crowds had thinned, but plenty of people were visible recreating, shopping and grabbing food.<\/strong><br \/>McKenna Harford \/ <a href=\"mailto:mharford@skyhinews.com\">mharford@skyhinews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/05\/DSC_6583-1024x684.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/05\/DSC_6595-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/05\/DSC_6595-1024x684.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com | Many of the businesses open for Memorial Day weekend required special precautions for customers and staff. Business owners say there is minimal pushback.\" class=\"swift-gallery-slide h-100\" readability=\"-1.3298969072165\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7.0927835051546\">\n<p><strong>Many of the businesses open for Memorial Day weekend required special precautions for customers and staff. Business owners say there is minimal pushback.<\/strong><br \/>McKenna Harford \/ <a href=\"mailto:mharford@skyhinews.com\">mharford@skyhinews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/05\/DSC_6595-1024x684.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/05\/DSC_6579-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/05\/DSC_6579-1024x684.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com | A sign at the end of Vasquez Road in Winter Park notes the campgrounds are full. On Saturday, the trailhead had a line of cars parked at it.\" class=\"swift-gallery-slide h-100\" readability=\"-0.87845303867403\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7.9060773480663\">\n<p><strong>A sign at the end of Vasquez Road in Winter Park notes the campgrounds are full. On Saturday, the trailhead had a line of cars parked at it.<\/strong><br \/>McKenna Harford \/ <a href=\"mailto:mharford@skyhinews.com\">mharford@skyhinews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/05\/DSC_6579-1024x684.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/05\/100055967_10157595269374005_4676937656964218880_n-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/05\/100055967_10157595269374005_4676937656964218880_n.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Maire Sullivan | On Saturday, Vasquez Road had a line of cars parked on it as recreators hit the trails.\" class=\"swift-gallery-slide h-100\" readability=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>On Saturday, Vasquez Road had a line of cars parked on it as recreators hit the trails.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Maire Sullivan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/05\/100055967_10157595269374005_4676937656964218880_n.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/memorial-day-weekend-visitors-not-deterred-by-pandemic\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/memorial-day-weekend-visitors-not-deterred-by-pandemic\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>With cars lined up at trailheads and some retailers seeing more customers than in past years, Grand County\u2019s Memorial Day weekend crowds didn\u2019t seem too dampened by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic or the county\u2019s safer at home orders.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Grand County businesses are only open on a limited basis, allowing in-person shopping with restrictions, personal services and takeout and delivery dining options. Short-term lodging is still prohibited, campgrounds remain closed and gatherings aren\u2019t supposed to include over 10 people.<\/p>\n<p>The semi-open nature of the county has led to increased visitor traffic this holiday weekend, Sheriff Brett Schroetlin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Our call volume) has definitely significantly increased for the weekend,\u201d Schroetlin said. \u201cIt\u2019s been different types of calls than we would normally receive on Memorial Day weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row shn-donation shn-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/shn-logo-2x-wht.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/shn-logo-2x-wht.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Aside from the typical rise in traffic calls that comes with more cars on the road, Schroetlin said his deputies responded to a number of visitors camping on private property or in an inappropriate area. Calls about camp fires also jumped this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>As for public health order violations, Schroetlin said his office has not had to write any summons, but has responded to some complaints about social distancing and face mask usage.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a lot of the campgrounds being closed, people get up here and they try to find other places,\u201d he said. \u201cI think a lot of it is, it\u2019s very confusing for people right now. The state says one thing, but some counties have received variances, Grand County still hasn\u2019t received a variance yet, so it\u2019s hard to message the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Local businesses report similarly, noting few problems with compliance from customers following store precautions. Jim Peterson, store manager for Christy Sports in Winter Park, said despite the extra measures required, his shop has seen plenty of customers stop in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been busier than every non-COVID Memorial Day weekend,\u201d Peterson said. \u201cWe\u2019re getting quite a few calls from people in Denver who want to buy a bike, but can\u2019t find one and they\u2019re willing to drive up to the mountains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peterson said he\u2019s seen a huge demand for bikes and mant boutique brand bike purchases this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, trailheads across Grand County saw eager recreators descend, including Vasquez Road in Winter Park and Monarch Lake outside Granby.<\/p>\n<p>In Grand Lake, Marilou Randall, co-owner of Never Summer Mountain Products, said this year\u2019s holiday weekend is holding its own in comparison to the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are making the best of it,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve probably had busier Memorial Days, but the customers I am getting in are more than happy to actually get out, shop again and there\u2019s some sense of normal again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Randall noted that some of her most popular items this weekend have been neck buffs, which can be used as masks, and, once the rain rolled in, on-sale winter apparel. Sunday\u2019s clouds and rain-snow combo did drive away some of the crowd, she said, but not as much as expected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Saturday) was such a nice day in Grand Lake \u2026 there were just people everywhere, ice cream and kids on bikes,\u201d Randall said. \u201cWith the rain I thought we weren\u2019t going to get much of anything \u2026 but that\u2019s not been the case. People are out and about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/memorial-day-weekend-visitors-not-deterred-by-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marilou Randall, co-owner of Never Summer Mountain Products, said she didn\u2019t know what to expect this Memorial Day weekend, but it seems neither the pandemic nor the weather dampened her business much.McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com By Sunday, the crowds had thinned, but plenty of people were visible recreating, shopping and grabbing food.McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 10:34:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23063,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23056\/revisions\/23063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}