Free Entrance at National Parks This Weekend
Now that the summer weddings are over and the parade of guests has slowed to a trickle (except for you lucky jerks living in ski towns—it hasn’t even begun) The National Park Service is offering free entrance to the parks. Entrance should be free all the time since it’s our money that’s funding these things, but at least we can still travel unmolested and camp for free in any national forest. Apparently September 27th is something called “National Public Lands Day,” and now that I found out I’m mad that it’s not a three-day weekend. Of course, I’m sure people working in liquor stores in Utah get the day off since all the stores will be closed.
via GetOutdoors
By Rocky Thompson- rockythompson
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September 26th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
[…] Don’t feel badly you missed the fact that tomorrow is National Public Lands Day. Or even that you have no idea what that is — I sure didn’t. But apparently it’s momentous enough an occasion for the NPS to waive all National Parks entrance fees for the weekend. The lakes of Minnesota’s own Voyageurs National Park see a wider variety of boat traffic than the BWCA, including boat tours, houseboats, and those nutty kayak-camping folk. The park offers car-camping, but their miles of lakeshore camping are of the kind that make Minnesota outdoors experiences so unique.Worth the drive up this weekend… even if you didn’t know Voyageurs’ entry permits are indeed, free already
via The Goat. […]