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WASHINGTON D.C. - (KSEE/KGPE) - President Donald Trump signed an executive bid past week that volition necessitate planetary visitors to wage an accrued interest erstwhile visiting nationalist parks.
The 2026 fiscal twelvemonth interior fund for the National Park Service mentions that the projected budget for adjacent twelvemonth is $2.1 billion. In the budget, it mentions the Recreation Fee Program, which volition found a surcharge for what it says are overseas visitors. It states that this surcharge is estimated to make much than $90 cardinal to "keep nationalist parks beautiful."
When asking the National Park Service to clarify however the interest would beryllium enforced, they referenced a tweet by the Secretary of the Department of the Interior, Doug Burgum.
In his post, Burgum says the accommodation of entranceway fees for planetary visitors astatine nationalist parks volition unafraid affordable entree for communities and "put American families first." He besides says the fees volition guarantee visitors from astir the satellite lend to preservation.
With 2 nationalist parks successful the Central Valley area, it is presently chartless however overmuch the interest volition summation astatine Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks oregon Yosemite National Park. It is besides chartless however the interest volition beryllium enforced.
But successful Trump's enforcement order, it states that Burgum, the Secretary of the Interior, "shall make a strategy" to summation gross and amended the recreational acquisition astatine the nationalist parks. The bid states that the entranceway fees and recreation fees volition beryllium "appropriately increasing" for nonresidents successful areas of the National Park strategy that complaint entranceway fees oregon recreation walk fees.
It states that the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall instrumentality the steps to summation the prices astatine which the America the Beautiful Pass, the National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass and immoderate site-specific bureau oregon determination multi-entity passes are sold to nonresidents.
To work the afloat enforcement order, click here.
