Yosemite National Park closed on its birthday, honored with Google Doodle

Google paid homage to Yosemite for the famed national park's 123rd birthday Tuesday with one of its homepage Doodles. But on day 1 of the shutdown, the 761,000-acre park got no birthday love from federal government.

Yosemite National Park is just one of the many victims of Tuesday's shutdown, which includes parks, zoos, monuments and offices all over the country. Even Yosemite's website is down.

Because of the federal gov’t shutdown this National Park Service Twitter feed is inactive. We’ll start tweeting again when we get back

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— NationalParkService (@NatlParkService) October 1, 2013

Yosemite employees worked to notify tourists and park visitors of the shutdown. People already in the park were given 48 hours to leave.

According to the National Park Service's contingency plan, more than 21,000 park employees around the country have been furloughed for the shutdown. Little more than 3,200 employees deemed "essential" -- law enforcement officials, emergency care personnel, etc. -- were exempt from furloughs.