The National Park Service is proposing to increase the $5 per-night camping fee at Belle, Hidden Valley, Jumbo Rocks, Ryan, and White Tank campgrounds to $10 per night. Also, it has been proposed that the current $10 per-night fee at Cottonwood Campground family sites be increased to $20 per night. Golden Age and Golden Access passport holders would pay 50 percent of the increased fee.
The camping fee increases would be used to directly benefit visitors to Joshua Tree National Park through improved services and support for maintenace of park facilites.
Members of the public are invited to comment on the proposed fee increases. You may call the park at 760-367-5502, write to Superintendent Curt Sauer at 74485 National Park Drive, Twentynine Palms, CA 92277, or e-mail us. The comment period will close Sept. 1, 2006.
For additional information about the proposed fee increases, you may contact Fee Supervisor Teresa Edmonson at 760-367-5549.
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
