VIDEO Numerous emergency calls\, poor shape of trail led to closure of Glen Onoko Trail

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Good evening.

I'm rob vaughn, i'm wendy davis first at 6 the end of an outdoor the popular glen onoko hiking trail is now officially closed but as wfmz bo koltnow reports.

It may not be permanent.

>>hikers hoping to catch a glimpse of glen, onoko falls will instead encounter a permanently closed trail people have fallen because they walked into the stream above the falls.

Not realizing that those algae covered rocks are like ice.

That's on the hike have reached the double digits and social media and agro tourism turn the onetime hunting trail into a haven for hikers.

But the numerous emergency calls that strain local resources and the poor shape of the trail itself led to the game commission closing glen, onoko that's what's really spool of the years as people amount of people coming in that garbage friday fits in your had been hiking when in doubt go since the 1970's.

>>and he says there's been an increase in idiocy on the trail what's the idiocy you've personally seen people wearing high heels to see people or ios justice in people in high heels sandals flip-flops in july of 2016 this is not for the faint of heart.

The showed us how it tried to make the fall safer.

But this barrier didn't seem to work.

And recently a petition signed by more than 20,000 people also didn't help in keeping the hike open.

There is good news for hikers or maybe a light at the end of this close trail.

There is talk in harrisburg and possibly transferring ownership of the land from the game commission to the dcnr or another environmental an a t with the possibility of having it reopened until then fines for getting caught on the high could be hundreds of dollars.

However bill kunkel says there is a way around that you can still access.

The upper falls get to the