Mount Rushmore, Rocky Mountain National Park and eight federal sites in Utah will also reopen starting this weekend
More than 400 federally managed tourist sites across the nation have been closed since the shutdown started at the start of October due to a budget impasse between Republicans and Democrats.
The stalemate is costing $152 million a day in lost travel-related activity, affecting up to 450,000 American workers, according to the US Travel Association. Alone some 20,000 park services employees were furloughed
Oct 11,2013 Friday's New York agreement will allow funding for the Statue of Liberty for six days, beginning Saturday through October 17, with the state donating $369,300 to keep it running.
Arizona has agreed to fund the Grand Canyon, visited by millions of tourists from all over the world every year, for seven days beginning Saturday Oct 12,2013, at a cost of $651,000.
Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park will be funded for 10 days beginning Friday at a cost of $362,700, and eight national parks and monuments in Utah will reopen also for 10 days beginning Friday at a cost of $1.666 million to the western US state
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