The crew working on a bridge in Alaska’s Denali National Park was recently told they can no longer fly the American flag at their construction site.

The bridge is being built by Granite Construction after a 2021 rock slide took out a portion of the Denali Park Road. The $207 million Federal Highway Administration project will repair the road at mile 45 so that it can be used by visitors and tour buses to access more remote areas of the park.

But park superintendent Brooke Merrell has ordered the workers to stop flying the Stars and Stripes from their equipment — citing complaints that the flag detracts from the "park experience."

A contractor working on the project told Alaska Watchman that patriotism wasn't a problem until the park began running tour buses earlier this week.