{"id":173231,"date":"2025-11-26T07:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-triples-national-park-fee-for-non-residents-amid-new-fee-for-americans-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T07:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:59:10","slug":"us-triples-national-park-fee-for-non-residents-amid-new-fee-for-americans-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-triples-national-park-fee-for-non-residents-amid-new-fee-for-americans-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"US triples national park fee for non-residents, amid \u2018new\u2019 fee for Americans – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interior department, which has defunded conservation organizations, claims fee hike is for conservation
The interior department announced today new \u201cAmerica-first\u201d entrance fees for national parks, commemorative annual passes featuring Donald Trump and \u201cresident-only patriotic fee-free days for 2026\u201d including Trump\u2019s birthday.
Starting next year, entrance fees for international visitors will more than triple.
According to a department press release<\/a>, non-residents will be able to choose between purchasing a $250 annual pass or paying $100 per person \u201cto enter 11 of the most visited national parks, in addition to the standard entrance fee\u201d.
In a video posted to his X account, interior secretary Doug Burgum said: \u201cThis year we\u2019re making it easier and more affordable for every American to experience the beauty and freedom of our public lands.\u201d
\u201cStarting in 2026, United States residents will be able to purchase an annual interagency pass for just $80,\u201d he added. The current, annual interagency America the Beautiful pass<\/a> is already $80.
The aim of raising prices for international visitors is to ensure \u201cthey contribute their fair share to help preserve and maintain these treasured places\u201d, Burgum said.
Burgum also announced commemorative new designs for annual passes issued in 2026. The annual pass features portraits of George Washington and Donald Trump side-by-side, while the military pass includes a photograph of Trump saluting troops.
The interior department announced five new \u201cfee free days\u201d that will go into effect in 2026, bringing the total number of fee free days \u2013 for US residents only \u2013 to 10.
The new fee-free days include 3, 4 and 5 July \u2013 in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. They also include 17 September, which is Constitution Day, and 27 October, the birthday of conservationist and former president Theodore Roosevelt. The final fee-free day is 14 June, which Burgum noted is \u201cFlag Day, which is also fittingly President Trump\u2019s birthday\u201d.
In his video, Burgum noted that plans to increase fees for international visitors were focused on conservation. \u201cAs Theodore Roosevelt once said, there can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country,\u201d he said. Under Burgum and Trump\u2019s leadership, the interior department has lost nearly a quarter<\/a> of national parks staff, proposed billions of dollars in cuts<\/a> to public lands, opened logging in national forests<\/a>, defunded conservation organizations<\/a> and proposed allowing oil and gas drilling<\/a> off California\u2019s coast.<\/p>\n

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Interior department, which has defunded conservation organizations, claims fee hike is for conservationThe interior department announced today new \u201cAmerica-first\u201d entrance fees for national parks, commemorative annual passes featuring Donald Trump and \u201cresident-only patriotic fee-free days for 2026\u201d including Trump\u2019s birthday.Starting next year, entrance fees for international visitors will more than triple.According to a department press […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}