This park stretches across Volusia and Brevard counties, and all operations have stopped at the park itself and the wildlife refuge.

Steve Norris and his wife visit the Canaveral National Seashore Park and the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge to see birds.

"It's a beautiful place — definitely one of the gems," said Steve Norris, a park-goer.

But on Monday, they spotted more than the birds — there were signs lining the park warning of the government shutdown.

Although Congress approved a bipartisan plan Monday to end the government shutdown, it still has to be approved by President Donald Trump. 

In the meantime, park officials said people can enter at their own risk, which wasn't great news for the people who love to visit.

"It seems funny to me that when the shutdown comes, that they are closing areas that would've generated revenue. So actually they are losing money," Norris said.

According to the notices, not even bathrooms or trash is maintained during a shutdown.

The Norris' rolled right in since there were no workers to collect park fees.

"It’s a big impact to lose your pay for one day or at this point, I think it's already the third day. It's a big impact. I feel bad for them," Norris said.

Norris and his wife also know what it's like to work at a wildlife refuge. The couple volunteers six months out of the year at a refuge in Maine.

"All of that research stops when they have a shutdown like this. That's really where the bigger impact of the future is these animals are not going to have the study and the care that they would have at the refuge … operating as open," Norris said.

The last time the government shut down in 2013, employees who worked places like these parks across the nation were off for two weeks.

Norris said these parks mean too much for the country to let that happen again.

"It is a huge deal not necessarily again just for the revenue or just for the jobs that are lost, but because it's one of your marks that makes this country so great, and to close them all take a little bit away from the county," said Norris.