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Mark your calendar! The National Park Service is offering free admission to sites that normally charge an entrance fee during 10 days throughout 2017.
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Many national parks are free every day, but 120 of them regularly charge fees between $3 and $30.
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The fee waiver includes entrance fees, commercial tour fees and transportation entrance fees. Here are the fee-free days that you’ll want to plan your visit around:
- January 16: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- February 20: Presidents’ Day
- April 15-16 and 22-23: Weekends of National Park Week
- August 25: National Park Service Birthday
- September 30: National Public Lands Day
- November 11-12: Veterans Day Weekend
Here’s a state-by-state list of the sites participating in the free entrance days:
Alaska
Arizona
- Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
- Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
- Grand Canyon National Park
- Lake Mead National Recreation Area
- Montezuma Castle National Monument
- Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
- Petrified Forest National Park
- Pipe Spring National Monument
- Saguaro National Park
- Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
- Tonto National Monument
- Tumacácori National Historical Park
- Tuzigoot National Monument
- Walnut Canyon National Monument
- Wupatki National Monument
Arkansas
California
- Cabrillo National Monument
- Death Valley National Park
- Joshua Tree National Park
- Lassen Volcanic National Park
- Lava Beds National Monument
- Muir Woods National Monument
- Pinnacles National Park
- San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
- Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks
- Whiskeytown National Recreation Area
- Yosemite National Park
Colorado
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
- Colorado National Monument
- Dinosaur National Monument
- Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
- Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve
- Mesa Verde National Park
- Rocky Mountain National Park
Florida
- Canaveral National Seashore
- Castillo de San Marcos National Monument
- Dry Tortugas National Park
- Everglades National Park
- Gulf Islands National Seashore
Georgia
- Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area
- Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park
- Cumberland Island National Seashore
- Fort Pulaski National Monument
Hawaii
- Haleakalā National Park
- Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park
- Pu’uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park
Idaho
Indiana
Maine
Maryland
- Antietam National Battlefield
- Assateague Island National Seashore
- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park
- Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
- Fort Washington Park
- Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
- Harry S. Truman National Historic Site
- Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
- Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield
Montana
- Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area
- Glacier National Park
- Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
- Yellowstone National Park
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
- Aztec Ruins National Monument
- Bandelier National Monument
- Capulin Volcano National Monument
- Carlsbad Caverns National Park
- Chaco Culture National Historical Park
- Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
- White Sands National Monument
- Valles Caldera National Preserve
New York
- Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site
- Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site
- Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
- Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
- Saratoga National Historical Park
- Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Puerto Rico
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
- Big Bend National Park
- Fort Davis National Historic Site
- Guadalupe Mountains National Park
- Padre Island National Seashore
Utah
- Arches National Park
- Bryce Canyon National Park
- Canyonlands National Park
- Capitol Reef National Park
- Cedar Breaks National Monument
- Dinosaur National Monument
- Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
- Golden Spike National Historic Site
- Natural Bridges National Monument
- Zion National Park
Virgin Islands
Virginia
- Assateague Island National Seashore
- Colonial National Historical Park
- George Washington Memorial Parkway’s Great Falls Park
- Prince William Forest Park
- Shenandoah National Park
Washington
- Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
- Lewis & Clark National Historical Park
- Mount Rainier National Park
- Olympic National Park
West Virginia
Wyoming
- Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area
- Devils Tower National Monument
- Grand Teton National Park
- Yellowstone National Park
In addition to the fee-free days, any fourth grade student can get a free annual pass as part of the Every Kid in a Park program. Free passes are also available to active duty military and disabled citizens.
