{"id":113836,"date":"2020-03-14T10:11:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T20:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=113836"},"modified":"2020-04-02T14:17:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T00:17:13","slug":"maunakea-vis-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/14\/maunakea-vis-closing\/","title":{"rendered":"Maunakea visitor center closing temporarily"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_64822\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64822\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/hilo-maunakea-visitors-center.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"451\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/hilo-maunakea-visitors-center.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/hilo-maunakea-visitors-center-260x173.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maunakea Visitor Information Station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifa.hawaii.edu\/info\/vis\/\">Maunakea Visitor Information Station<\/a> (<abbr>VIS<\/abbr>) on <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island will suspend operations starting Sunday March 15, in response to the COVID-19 situation.<\/p>\n<p>The move is being made as a health and safety measure as many other operations around the state and the world are conducting similar closures. The closure is effective as of 6 p.m. on March 15.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We understand that the Visitor Information Center is helpful to those who visit Maunakea,&rdquo; General Manager of Maunakea Observatory Support Services <strong>Stewart Hunter<\/strong> said. &ldquo;However, we want to be prudent for the welfare of our visitors and our staff during this extraordinary time. We appreciate the understanding of the public.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\/giving-opportunity\/covid-19\">Support the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Student Relief fund and COVID-19 research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The parking lot will remain open as well as the portable toilets there. While the mountain remains open to the public, officials encourage everyone to follow health department recommendations on social distancing and protection.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>VIS<\/abbr> administrators will continue to meet and discuss the latest developments to determine when they should reopen and resume operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current pandemic has prompted the closure of the Maunakea Visitor Information Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[814],"tags":[1411,1418,1415,35,659,14,947],"class_list":["post-113836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maunakea","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-announcement","tag-covid-19-closure","tag-institute-for-astronomy","tag-maunakea","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113836"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115119,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113836\/revisions\/115119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}