Access to Arizona Memorial won't be restored for months
Walk-on access to the USS Arizona Memorial won’t be restored by the end of March, as previously announced by the National Park Service, and it may be many more months before access resumes, officials said.
The complexity of repairs to a 105-foot floating dock that serves as a boat disembarkation site is adding more and more time to the predicted reopening.
The timeline raises the prospect of far more than a year of non-access to the revered sunken battleship and grave for more than 900 men, including a second busy summer season without the ability to step foot on the Arizona Memorial. Access was curtailed in May.
Some 4,000 to 5,000 visitors head out to Pearl Harbor every day to see one of the most popular attractions in the state.
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