mountain tops hundreds of feet above.

The super bloom was originally met with excitement in the community of 66,000, which is about a 90-minutes drive from both Los Angeles and San Diego.

But problems quickly arose this weekend, including traffic and people leaving trails and trampling the flowers.

Officials in Lake Elsinore in Southern California were forced to close its public viewing of a super bloom of poppies on Sunday after being overrun by tens of thousands of flower-crazed tourists

Tens of thousands of tourists were spotted posing for pictures among the scores of flowers following the super bloom of poppies

The hashtags #poppyshutdown and #poppyapocalypse began spreading on Twitter.

The city initially tweeted that roads were jammed, traffic on Interstate 15 had stopped moving and law enforcement assistance was requested from neighboring jurisdictionsin the city of Lake Elsinore closed access to Walker Canyon on Sunday after 'Disneyland size crowds' flocked to the area and caused huge traffic jams on nearby highways

Residents of the small town experienced difficulty getting to and from their homes at the weekend due to widespread road closures and traffic congestion caused by visitors

A couple is pictured posing among the flowers as thousands of people flocked to the area for a glimpse of the super bloom

Instagram was filled with super bloom photos of people posing among the flowers

One of the main concerns from city officials was people leaving the trails and trampling the wild flowers

The super bloom is the result of extremely heavy winter rainfall that saw the hillside covered in bright orange poppies

Tourists have been flocking