{"id":280174,"date":"2026-09-06T07:48:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280174\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T07:48:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:48:02","slug":"presque-isle-closed-friday-due-to-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280174\/","title":{"rendered":"Presque Isle closed Friday due to storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tDrew Miller and Drew Kolek<\/p>\n<p>\t\t2 days ago\n<\/p>\n<p>(WJET\/WFXP) \u2014 Anyone hoping to kick off Labor Day weekend with a trip to the beach will have to look elsewhere or wait.<\/p>\n<p>Presque Isle State Park officials said the park will be closed on Friday for ongoing storm cleanup and visitor safety.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/presque-isle-announces-beaches-open-for-labor-day-weekend-2026\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tPresque Isle announces beaches open for Labor Day weekend 2026\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Park officials anticipate the closure will remain in place through and including Sunday, September 6.<\/p>\n<p>The park first closed Thursday morning after storms moving through the area knocked down several power lines and impacted numerous trees throughout the park.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said their crews and those from other western Pennsylvania parks are working diligently to have the park open in time for the holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p>According to a release from Mary Jo Rutkowski, community relations specialist for the park, \u201cThe Tom Ridge Environmental Center and Erie Bluff\u2019s State Park remain open to visitors for the holiday weekend.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drew Miller and Drew Kolek 2 days ago (WJET\/WFXP) \u2014 Anyone hoping to kick off Labor Day weekend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-280174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}