Free admission to National Parks

Posted on | September 22, 2009 | No Comments

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.

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