NPS Entrance Fee-Free Day

Guadalupe Mountains National Park to Offer Free Admission on Five Days in 2019

 Salt Flat, Texas – The National Park Service announces that the public will be invited to experience all national parks, including Guadalupe Mountains National Park, without entrance fees, on five days in 2019.

The 2019 entrance fee-free days are:

Monday, January 21 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

• Saturday, April 20 – First Day of National Park Week/National Junior Ranger Day
• Sunday, August 25 – National Park Service Anniversary
• Saturday, September 28 – National Public Lands Day
• Monday, November 11 – Veterans Day

 “The entrance fee-free days hosted by the National Park Service are special opportunities to invite visitors, volunteers and veterans to celebrate some important moments for our parks and opportunities for service in those parks,” said National Park Service Deputy Director P. Daniel Smith.
 
The National Park System includes more than 85 million acres and includes national parks, national historical parks, national monuments, national recreation areas, national battlefields, and national seashores. There is at least one national park site in every U.S. state.

Guadalupe Mountains National Park protects and interprets the world's most extensive Permian fossil reef, the four highest peaks in Texas, an environmentally diverse collection of flora and fauna, and the stories of lives shaped through conflict, cooperation and survival in a place that still inspires challenge, reflection and self-reliance today.  

Guadalupe Mountains National Park has an entrance fee of $7.00 per person, ages 16 and older. The entrance fee waiver does not cover front country camping at Pine Springs and Dog Canyon campgrounds.

Only 115 of the 418 parks managed by the National Park Service charge entrance fees regularly, with fees ranging from $5 to $35. The other 303 national parks do not have entrance fees. The entrance fee waiver for the fee-free days does not cover amenity or user fees for activities such as camping, boat launches, transportation, or special tours.

The annual $80 America the Beautiful National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass allows unlimited entrance to more than 2,000 federal recreation areas, including all national parks that charge an entrance fee. There are also free or discounted passes available for senior citizens, current members of the military, families of fourth grade students, and disabled citizens.