News Release

Cape Cod National Seashore to move to fully cashless fee collection July 1

NPS/French

News Release Date: June 18, 2025

Contact: Linzy French

WELLFLEET, Mass.– Cape Cod National Seashore will transition to a fully cashless system at its fee entrance stations on July 1, 2025. Only credit cards, debit cards, or mobile payments will be accepted at beach entrance booths. The transition to electronic payment is safer, reduces transaction times, and improves accountability.

The decision aligns with a recent Executive Order and U.S Treasury policies to reduce the amount of cash and checks handled across the federal government.  

“Cash sales represent 10-percent of in-person sales in the park,” said Park Superintendent Jennifer Flynn. “During the busy summer season, park rangers spend up to eight and a half hours per day documenting, reporting, and transferring cash receipts. Moving to a cashless system will reduce the amount of time park staff spend managing cash and increase their availability to engage with the public and collect fees while increasing the amount of fee revenue available to support critical projects and visitor services.” 

Entrance fees are a critical source of revenue used to improve the experience for visitors in national parks. Cape Cod National Seashore uses these funds for projects like rebuilding the Marconi Beach boardwalk and observation platform, installing new fee booths at beaches, and rebuilding the Beech Forest trail boardwalk.

Travelers are able to pay for entrance fees, advanced reservations for camping, user fees, and more at hundreds of National Park Service, US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, and US Army Corps of Engineers sites throughout the country using the Recreation.gov online service and the mobile app.