Nationwide Park Service
Free Entry on Trump’s Birthday
… However Not on MLK Day or Juneteenth!!!
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Donald Trump is giving Individuals a brand new option to have a good time his birthday — free entry to nationwide parks! Two different holidays — Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day — are getting the boot, nevertheless.
The calendar of free entry dates on the Nationwide Park Service web site confirms this variation for 2026 and covers 116 parks, from Yellowstone, Yosemite and Grand Canyon to Everglades Nationwide Park and past.
Juneteenth commemorates the official finish of slavery within the U.S. and was acknowledged as a federal vacation in 2021 below the Biden Administration. It was added as a free day to enter nationwide parks in 2024.
Along with Trump’s birthday, which is shared with Flag Day on June 14, US residents can even take pleasure in free admission to parks on Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day weekend (July 3 – 5), the a hundred and tenth Birthday of the Nationwide Park Service on August 25, Structure Day, Theodore Roosevelt’s birthday and Veterans Day.
The Trump Administration calls the free entrance designations “patriotic fee-free days.”
The transfer is part of the prez’s July 2025 “Making America Stunning Once more” govt order that aimed to make parks extra reasonably priced for Americans and to fund enchancment by charging overseas guests greater nationwide park charges.
Secretary of the Inside Doug Burgum stated in a press launch the upcoming modifications are a part of President Trump’s plans to “at all times [put] American households first.” He added … “These insurance policies be sure that U.S. taxpayers, who already assist the Nationwide Park System, proceed to take pleasure in reasonably priced entry, whereas worldwide guests contribute their fair proportion to sustaining and enhancing our parks for future generations.”
The Annual Move will value $80 for U.S. residents and $250 for nonresidents starting on Jan. 1, and overseas vacationers with out an annual move will likely be charged a $100 per individual price to enter 11 of essentially the most visited nationwide parks, along with the usual entrance price.
