National Park Service (
NPS.gov) is offering their
Lifetime Military Pass through America the Beautiful National Parks/Federal Recreational Lands for
Free valid for
all Gold Star Families and US Military Veterans when you
download/present your
signed Gold Star Family Voucher for redemption.
Thanks to community member
pikappaphiEE252 for finding this deal
Note, current members of the US Armed Forces and their dependents are eligible or a veteran identified as an individual who has served in the US Armed Forces, including the National Guard and Reserves.
The free Military Pass waives entrance fees and does not cover expanded amenity or user fees for activities such as camping, transportation, special recreation permits, reservation fees or special tours.
Here is a
full list of federal locations that the issue passes
Additionally, a
free annual Military Pass is available for current US military members and their dependents
Top Comments
And the simple answer to your question of why they need to charge entrance fees, camping fees, event fees, etc is because if they didn't, the combined budget wouldn't be sufficient to maintain the parks and provide the service. But then you ask why not just raise taxes. And the simple answer to that is they think they have a good balance between having all taxpayers pay for the parks (including those that don't use them) and having those that actually use them pay a little extra.
Hope that clears it up for you
https://store.usgs.gov/MilitaryPass
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https://store.usgs.gov/MilitaryPass
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I selected Veteran and Add Product to Cart. Then click on the shopping cart icon to view cart and proceed to checkout.
Glacier was the only one which had the pass cards on hand. Thankfully, the other parks still let us enter free, showing just my VA photo ID and DL.
It was only an annual pass, so this lifetime pass is a 1000x better to have.
Anyway, Thanks for finding and posting this.
And to all the veterans, here... Thanks for your service.
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