A "Road Number" FYI... July 21, 2010, 01:24:34 pm Yahoo Message Number: 114657About a week ago, I learned a "road number lesson": a road within the boundaries of a national park doesn't necessarily carry the same number or designation as the *same* road outside of the national park's boundaries, and looking up road conditions on a state's traffic information website will not necessarily bring accurate, or any, results about road conditions within a national park. In this case, it was Hwy. 41, the "south entrance", i.e., through Fish Camp and Wawona, to Yosemite NP. The California DOT road condition website (http://www.dot.ca.gov/cgi-bin/roads.cgi) indicated no road/traffic problems on "Hwy. 41", and there weren't. For whatever reason -- wedgehead is the most likely - I didn't bother to further check the road conditions for "Yosemite National Park". If I had, I would have discovered that the "Wawona Road" (aka "Hwy. 41" outside the park) was *28 miles* of "construction" (in the "DEstruction" phase!) of super-slow, dusty, hot, traffic-choked, delay-filled, potholed, gravel goat path! http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/roadwork.htmJust a heads up and a reminder to *always* check the specific national park's website for current road conditions within the park. Duh. ;-)Joan
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