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Judi Lynn (88,434 posts)Grand Canyon, other parks float entry-fee increaseSource: Associated PressGrand Canyon, other parks float entry-fee increaseBy FELICIA FONSECA, Associated Press | November 7, 2014 | Updated: November 7, 2014 4:33pmFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Visiting the Grand Canyon and other national parks could get a little pricier.The National Park Service said 115 of its 401 units plan to seek public comment on entrance fees that could go up starting next year. It's part of a broader effort by the agency to bring in more money for visitor services and start addressing a backlog of projects ahead of its centennial."Obviously everyone would love to have fees not go up, but we also know the reality is budgets have been static and tight," said Patrick O'Driscoll, a spokesman in the agency's Intermountain Region based in Denver. "Fees are one of the only ways that parks can try to catch up with some important improvements, badly needed upgrades."The Grand Canyon announced a proposal Friday to increase its single-vehicle entrance fee from $25 to $30 for a seven-day pass. Efforts to raise fees at other parks across the country will be wide-ranging but cannot top certain limits. The Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Zion and Sequoia are among 10 parks where proposed entrance fees will be capped at $30 per vehicle or $15 per person, for example, the Park Service said.About 130 national park units charge entrance fees, and they are able to keep 80 percent of those fees for use within the individual park. The other 20 percent goes into a pool and is distributed to parks that don't charge visitors to enter.Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Grand-Canyon-other-parks-float-entry-fee-increase-5878614.php
JimDandy (4,381 posts)1. They already priced the poor out of park access with their current feeso I guess now it's time to try to price some more people out of our National Parks. Hooo ray!
alarimer (12,957 posts)2. This is what happens when you starve the budgets of federal agencies.I prefer national parks to military anything.
Xolodno (806 posts)16. Way over due in my opinion.Some of the lines to get in like Yosemite are way too long and the traffic is enormous....meanwhile, things get closed due to lack of funds, less park employee's for greater crowds, etc.Entrance fee's aren't that abhorrent anyway. Pay once....get the whole week (I just purchase the annual all parks pass). People who complain it higher fee's hurt the less fortunate.....if there are such people...they probably can't afford to get there....let alone afford to stay overnight.
What's the problem, DUmmies? Your own sides eco-nuts are the ones who don't think ANYBODY (Except, of course, their own enlightened and entitled selves) should be allowed into national forests or park in the first place.
