With no bathrooms open, Yosemite visitors have created a health hazard by pooping on roads

In this Monday, Dec. 31, 2018 photo provided by Dakota Snider shows a road lined with trash in Yosemite National Park, Calif. Human feces, overflowing garbage, illegal off-roading and other damaging behavior in fragile areas were beginning to overwhelm some of the West's iconic national parks on Monday, as a partial government shutdown left the areas open to visitors but with little staff on duty. (Dakota Snider via AP) less In this Monday, Dec. 31, 2018 photo provided by Dakota Snider shows a road lined with trash in Yosemite National Park, Calif. Human feces, overflowing garbage, illegal off-roading and other damaging behavior in ... more Photo: Dakota Snider / Associated Press Photo: Dakota Snider / Associated Press Image 1 of / 25 Caption Close With no bathrooms open, Yosemite visitors have created a health hazard by pooping on roads 1 / 25 Back to Gallery

Yosemite has closed several popular areas due to a rather disgusting public-health reason: There's human feces and urine on the roads.

Visitors to Yosemite National Park have taken to depositing their waste on the side of the park's busy roads, as the park's restrooms and visitor centers remain closed due to the partial federal government shutdown.

The park itself has remained open since the shutdown began on Dec. 22, but without trash collection and a private place on-site to pass waste, roads have become blocked in more ways than one, the Los Angeles Times reported.

ALSO: I'm a furloughed park ranger. Good thing my job taught me survival skills.

"With restrooms closed, some visitors are opting to deposit their waste in natural areas adjacent to high traffic areas, which creates a health hazard for other visitors," National Parks Service spokesman Andrew Munoz said in an email to the Times.

To cope with the build-up, the park closed both the Wawona and Hodgson Meadows campgrounds, and the Mariposa Grove of redwoods for public-health reasons.

The park statement's cited human feces and urine around Wawona Road (California Highway 41) in the south part of the park as contributing factors to the closure.

MORE: House Democrats plan to pass stopgap bill with no wall funding

The Times reported park officials are asking visitors to use bathrooms in adjacent communities before entering the park.