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SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Sequoia and Kings Canyon nationalist parks are joining the increasing fig of parks going cashless.
Park unit announced Tuesday that starting May 21, visitors volition nary longer beryllium allowed to wage astatine entranceway stations, campgrounds, or wilderness backcountry licence issuing stations utilizing cash. Staff accidental they volition alternatively lone judge mobile payments, recognition cards oregon debit cards.
The National Park Service says going cashless should velocity up enactment hold times by reducing transaction times. They besides accidental the determination volition trim the clip unit walk managing cash, allowing rangers to walk much clip with visitors, and volition maximize backing disposable for visitant services and captious projects by reducing the accidental of errors.
Visitors who are lone capable to wage with currency tin acquisition a parkland walk from the visitor center nearest each parkland entranceway oregon 1 of the pursuing 5 section third-party vendors:
- Sequoia Parks Conservancy successful the Foothills Visitor Center astatine 47050 Generals Hwy #10, Three Rivers
- Kaweah Arts astatine 42249 Sierra Dr., Three Rivers
- Three Rivers Historical Museum astatine 42268 Sierra Dr., Three Rivers
- Sequoia Parks Conservancy successful the Kings Canyon Visitor Center astatine 83918 Hwy 180, Grant Grove Village
- Project Survival Cat Haven astatine 38257 E. Kings Canyon Rd., Dunlap
In caller years, Yosemite, Death Valley, Rocky Mountain, Mount Rainier, Badlands, and Black Canyon of the Gunnison nationalist parks person besides switched to a cashless entrance.
