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Example of a National Park Passport Stamp for the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. Passport to Your National Parks is a program through which ink stamps can be acquired at no cost at park visitor centers and ranger stations at nearly all of the 433 units of the United States National Park System and most of the National Park Service's affiliated areas.
The America the Beautiful Pass (also known as the Interagency Pass) series comprises annual or lifetime passes that grant the holder entrance to more than 2,000 federally protected areas including national parks, national monuments, and other protected areas managed by six federal agencies: the National Park Service, the Forest Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land ...
Paying dues gives members access to the Master List, Master Database, and Master Map of all known National Park Passport Stamp locations, in addition to voting in club elections. The online site features trip reports and hints for visits to parks, information on legislation impacting parks, and a message board for park related topics.
A passport stamp. They began the national park passport stamp program in 1986, and as of February 1, 2006 have sold 1.3 million passport books. [4] To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the program, they created the "Passport Explorer", a new version of the passport book with larger, sturdier pages, in early 2006. [5]
National Public Lands Day is one of five dates when visitors can enter any of America’s national parks for free, but visitors are invited to do more. ...
In 2011, national parks generated $30.1 billion in economic activity and 252,000 jobs nationwide. Thirteen billion of that amount went directly into communities within 60 miles of a NPS unit. In a 2017 study, the NPS found that 331 million park visitors spent $18.2 billion in local areas around National Parks across the nation.
One of the most remote national parks in the U.S., National Park of American Samoa, is the only park south of the equator. In the heart of the South Pacific, some 2,600 miles southwest of Hawai'i ...
The National Park Service also waived entry fees on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the first day of National Park Week and Great American Outdoors Day. All year-round, national parks also offer free ...