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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK -- Foreign visitors volition soon person to wage other to research America's astir fashionable nationalist parks.
According to the U.S. Department of the Interior, nonresidents of the U.S. volition person to wage $250 for an yearly walk oregon $100 per person, successful summation to the modular entranceway fee, to participate definite nationalist parks opening Jan. 1, 2026.
"As portion of the Administration's committedness to enhancing entree for American residents, the Department is besides implementing America-first introduction interest policies. U.S. residents volition proceed to bask affordable pricing, portion nonresidents volition wage a higher complaint to assistance enactment the attraction and attraction of America's parks," a property merchandise astir the terms increases read, successful part.
"For immoderate people, they conscionable privation to travel present to spot the beauteous presumption implicit here. So, it's going to beryllium truly hard for them to travel present from now," tourer Get said.
Get, primitively from Thailand, was taking successful the iconic views of the Yosemite Valley connected Wednesday.
Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said the extremity of raising prices for overseas tourists is to boost gross for the parks.
"President Trump's enactment ever puts American families first," Burgum said. "These policies guarantee that U.S. taxpayers, who already enactment the National Park System, proceed to bask affordable access, portion planetary visitors lend their just stock to maintaining and improving our parks for aboriginal generations."
"What they benignant of amusement successful the verbiage connected the Park tract is that they are trying to reinvest this into the Park Service," Jacob Hawley said.
Hawley sees dozens of overseas travelers a day. The Mariposa Visitors Center is often their past halt earlier heading into the park.
"They're (from) each implicit the world. And, you know, we're getting rather a spot of travelers, particularly for the period of October," helium said.
The parks affected are Acadia National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Everglades National Park, Glacier National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Teton National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks, Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park and Zion National Park.
The White House said "AMERICANS OFFERED AFFORDABLE PRICES WHILE FOREIGNERS PAY MUCH MORE," successful a station connected X astir the terms bumps.
"Maybe it could beryllium a deterrent - if you summation the fee, past little radical would come," Pierre-Loues said.
The propulsion to summation prices for overseas parkland visitors began successful July erstwhile President Donald Trump issued an executive order asking Sec. Doug Burgum to "develop a strategy to summation gross and amended the recreational acquisition astatine nationalist parks by appropriately expanding entranceway fees and recreation walk fees for nonresidents."
The National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) which works to sphere America's nationalist parks, told ABC News that the radical is looking into the substance with the U.S. Department of the Interior directly.
"There's a batch to unpack successful this announcement, including galore questions connected however it volition beryllium implemented - each which NPCA volition rise with the Department of Interior," an NPCA spokesperson said.
In addition, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced 8 "resident-only patriotic fee-free days" adjacent year: Veteran's Day (November 11, 2026)
KGO contributed to this report.
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