Hordes of hikers are descending upon a beloved landmark Friday, hoping to score one last walk over the rock.

The Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in Australia’s Northern Territory has been scheduled to shutter for good all week long, yet extreme weather — plus a waiting list of hundreds of tourists — has pushed back the closing date for three days in a row.

On Wednesday and Thursday, Parks Australia closed Uluru sporadically because of temperatures near 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Come Friday morning, the geologic attraction was closed for two hours due to strong winds, The Guardian reports.

Once the park opened, however, some 200 people were let in within the first 30 minutes.

“Compared to the school holidays,” 28-year-old Tjiangu Thomas, an Uluru-Kata Tjuta national park ranger, told The Guardian, “this isn’t too much.”

Uluru’s closure comes after a decades-long fight by the Aboriginal Anangu people to preserve the land they consider sacred.

For years, at the foot of the hill, a sign has read: “We, the Anangu traditional owners, have this to say. Uluru is sacred in our culture. It is a place of great knowledge. Under our traditional law climbing is not permitted.” It goes on to say that “too many people have died or been hurt causing great sadness.”

Former prime minister of Australia Bob Hawke promised the Anangu back in 1983 that the climb would end, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

“This is really important for me and for Anangu and for the region. It’s a strong example of Anangu making decisions for their land,” said ranger Thomas, calling the event “rather emotional.”

“There’s a bit of sadness there, but also happiness knowing that the climb will be closed and respect is going to be given to Anangu’s wishes,” he added.

According to Thomas, the constant onslaught of tourists is damaging the “cultural value” of the park, and that “a lot of resources” are required to deal with that.

Australians from across the country are paying their respects to the soon-to-be shuttered national park — with mixed emotions. One visitor, Jim Koutrouvelise from Melbourne, told the Herald he was “a little bit torn,” because he knows Aboriginal people and wants to respect their wishes.

“But the truth is, I’m here, still willing to do it [the climb], so that’s where I am,” he said.

Also there to bid farewell, Hikara Ide, of Nagano, Japan, said he “cannot climb out of respect for the Aboriginal people.”

Referring to his travel companion, he added, “We are of the Shinto belief, which is to respect everything and not to indulge in conflict.”

Uluru tour guide Rick Peterson told the Herald that only about 15 percent of visitors actually attempt the risky climb, so he doesn’t think the closure will impact travel to see the natural wonder — from a safe distance.

“There are so many things that visitors can learn here without climbing,” he said. “The plants, the animals, the stories, the indigenous beliefs in ancestral spirits and their creation stories – Uluru is extraordinary.”