A city mayor described the situation as miserable for the entire community.
A small city in southern California declared a public safety crisis over the weekend and was forced to close off a canyon carpeted in a rare, dense spread of wildflowers as officials struggled to cope with the sheer number of visitors heading to the site.
The flowers first appeared in late February, and a community services officer was put in place to control traffic around the Walker Canyon Trail super bloom hotspot on Saturdays and Sundays between 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. But that provision wasn’t enough to prevent the chaos locals and officials have been dealing with since then.
Dubbing the incident #PoppyShutdown, Lake Elsinore City Hall closed off Walker Canyon on Sunday after the the situation"escalated beyond our available resources," according to its Facebook page. “Residents have been screaming at the people directing traffic,” he said, adding the situation was insane. Manos described the swathes of sightseers as the “poppy apocalypse.”
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