Lake Elsinore overrun with visitors to fields of blooming poppies

Visitors to the wildflowers at Walker Canyon in Lake Elsinore, California on Monday, March 18, 2019. About 150,000 people flocked to the area over the weekend to see this year's bloom of orange poppies brighten up the hillsides. The crowds at Walker Canyon, which is about a 90-minute drive from San Diego or Los Angeles, became so large that on Sunday local officials closed the local access road. The shutdown, which was a hot topic of discussion on Twitter under the hashtag #poppyshutdown, ended on Monday and the road to the canyon re-opened. [Photo: AP/Gregory Bull]