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National Park Fee Free Days for 2012

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Date: October 19, 2011

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that there will be 17 fee free days at National Park Service sites in 2012. The days are:

January 14-16: Martin Luther King Weekend

April 21-29: National Park Week

June 9: Great Outdoors Day

September 29: National Public Lands Day

November 10-12: Veterans Day Weekend

Did You Know?

Alfred Waud

The only contemporary visual evidence of the Battle of Five Forks was drawn by artist Alfred Waud. (Five Forks is a unit of Petersburg National Battlefield)