Free admission to National Parks
Everglades National Park. Photo by National Park Service.
Saturday, Sept. 26, is National Public Lands Day, and that means free admission to all national parks.
Technically, it’s a day of service designed to improve the parks. In 2008, 120,000 volunteers built trails and bridges, cleared trails of trash and invasive plants and planted trees. Even if you don’t want to participate in the cleanup, admission is free at all 391 national parks.
In Florida, those parks are:
- Canaveral National Seashore (one of the most beautiful beaches in Florida).
- Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, in St. Augustine.
- Dry Tortugas National Park, 70 miles west of Key West.
- Gulf Islands National Seashore, at the Mississippi-Florida border.
- Everglades National Park, south of Miami.
Florida’s other national parks are always free. They are:
- Big Cypress National Preserve, Ochopee.
- Biscayne National Park, Miami.
- De Soto National Memorial, Bradenton.
- Fort Caroline National Memorial and the Timucuan Preserve, Jacksonville.
- Fort Matanzas National Monument, St. Augustine.
- Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, stretching from North Carolina to Jacksonville.
- Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve, Jacksonville.
Category: Jacksonville and Northeast, Key West, Miami, St. Augustine
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Teresa Mears is a publisher, writer and editor who was raised to be frugal. She was downsized last summer after nearly 30 years as an editor at newspapers ranging in size from the Portland (Tenn.) Leader to The Los Angeles Times and The Miami Herald, where she worked most recently. She moved to Florida in 1980 because it was the only place she could get a job during that recession and has lived in South Florida since 1985, in Miami, Hollywood and Fort Pierce. She also has lived on Florida’s Gulf Coast, in St. Petersburg and Inverness.Subscribe
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