NATIONWIDE Those tired of staying indoors and wanting to visit a national park are in luck.
The National Park Service is offering visitors free admission on Saturday, April 17 in honor of National Park Week.
That date marks the first day of the weeklong celebration, which lasts April 17 – 25. The first day is meant to encourage residents to explore national parks that typically charge entrance fees.
“You are invited to join us on this special day celebrated across the United States and internationally to promote the growing movement of healthcare providers referring patients to parks to improve their health and wellbeing,” according to the NPS’ website. “This year ParkRx Day is a fee-free day in US National Parks so everyone can get out and enjoy the health benefits of the great outdoors.”
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This according to new data released by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
The law provides for up to $1.6 billion a year for five years to help address a multi-billion-dollar deferred maintenance backlog at national parks and other public lands.
Warner announced today that among the projects that will receive funding this year are overdue upgrades at three National Park Service sites in Virginia: the GW Memorial Parkway ($207.8 million in overdue upgrades); Colonial National Historical Park ($10 million in upgrades); and Skyline Drive ($26.2 million in upgrades), as well as additional repairs at Shenandoah National Park (to the tune of $3.5 million).
For Will and Jim Pattiz, the sibling filmmaking duo behind the award-winning
More than Just Parks video series, obtaining permits has long been one of the most frustrating parts of their jobs. In 2019, they were contracted by the National Park Service to work on a film for the park’s maintenance-backlog campaign. Despite the fact that their crew was just the two of them and the Park Service’s own head videographer, their permits were denied multiple times.
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More than Just Parks was born literally as an effort to share national parks with as many folks as possible, with the goal of protecting them,” Will said. “This sort of permitting creates a culture of fear and exclusion, especially if you’re the guy with a camera who’s just trying to get by. It was super frustrating.”