lol,...I was on the Outer Banks of North Carolina during the last shutdown. The beach on Ocracoke Island is a National Seashore 15 miles long.
It's just a beach,...where the Ocean meets the land. There's no development on it at all. It's just there. People walk on it and surf fish on it.
The Federal Government declared the beach had to be closed because of the government shutdown. There's only one or two park rangers who oversee it,..and there's really not much to oversee. I've been out there several times and I've yet to see one.
Anyway,..the Park Rangers didn't feel any particular need to shut down access to the beach.
They did the same thing with the islands on Gulf Islands National Seashore. BUT, the rangers were essential and were on duty.
