The two shrines will close late November due to winter and will remain shut for over six months.
The Kedarnath shrine area was ravaged in the June flash floods that killed thousands and devastated the roads and bridges to the shrine.
The Uttarakhand government has now decided to control the number of pilgrims to these two shrines.
Earlier, there was no such bar on the number of vehicles and people going to these shrines, including at Gangotri and Yamunotri.
