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In an effort to save on cash processing and hand handling fees, 22 national parks have gone cashless as of 2023. In September 2023, U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) proposed the "Protecting Access to Recreation with Cash Act" (PARC) which would require national parks to accept cash as a form of payment for entrance fee. [13]
Affiliated areas are marked on the lists below. National Park System units are found in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories of Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. The territory of the Northern Mariana Islands has an affiliated area but not an official NPS unit.
The largest national park is Wrangell–St. Elias in Alaska: at over 8 million acres (32,375 km 2 ), it is larger than each of the nine smallest states. The next three largest parks are also in Alaska. The smallest park is Gateway Arch National Park, Missouri, at 192.83 acres (0.7804 km 2 ).
Of the 423 sites within the National Park System, only 108 of them charge entrance fees, ranging from $5 to $35 for a vehicle, which includes all passengers inside. Camping, tours and shuttles have...
In 2003, the Washington State Legislature introduced a $5-a-day parking fee, meant to fund park-related construction projects; more than a quarter of the fees collected went into the fee-collection system itself. [3] Park use decreased more than 15% under the fees. The fee was rescinded in early 2006, returning the state park system to its ...
Each year, the NPS offers free entrance days, meaning you can visit any of the national parks without paying an entrance fee. For 2024, the dates include: Jan. 15 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)
Nov. 30—The National Park Service is proposing to increase public entrance fees to Acadia National Park to put it in the same fee range as some of the country's most popular national parks ...
Admission to all Pennsylvania state parks is free, although there are fees charged for use of cabins, marinas, etc. Pennsylvania's state parks offer "over 7,000 family campsites, 286 cabins, nearly 30,000 picnic tables, 56 major recreational lakes, 10 marinas, 61 beaches for swimming, 17 swimming pools" and over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of trails.