candycorn
Diamond Member
This is Big News.
The NPS and the Department of the Interior has waved entrance fees for Veterans and Gold Star families...FOREVER!
The edict applies to:
The program waives National Park Service entrance fees. It also waives entrance or standard amenity fees for other participating Department of the Interior agencies, the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers:
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Just to put this in perspective....my recent trip to Yellowstone was supposed to cost me $35.00. I drove through the West Yellowstone entrance at 4:30 in the morning and it was free. 200 yards into the park...a 2,000 pound bison was standing in the middle of the road and looked at me like "what the hell do you want". A little further in down Firehole Canyon Drive, you can see about 800 geysers like the one pictured below (no...it isn't Old Faithful)
Bryce Canyon...Utah:
Mt. Rushmore National Monument:
All free to Veterans as of this moment.
The NPS and the Department of the Interior has waved entrance fees for Veterans and Gold Star families...FOREVER!
The edict applies to:
The program waives National Park Service entrance fees. It also waives entrance or standard amenity fees for other participating Department of the Interior agencies, the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers:
- Bureau of Land Management
- Bureau of Reclamation
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- U.S. Forest Service
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Just to put this in perspective....my recent trip to Yellowstone was supposed to cost me $35.00. I drove through the West Yellowstone entrance at 4:30 in the morning and it was free. 200 yards into the park...a 2,000 pound bison was standing in the middle of the road and looked at me like "what the hell do you want". A little further in down Firehole Canyon Drive, you can see about 800 geysers like the one pictured below (no...it isn't Old Faithful)
Bryce Canyon...Utah:
Mt. Rushmore National Monument:
All free to Veterans as of this moment.