Bureaus under the U.S. Department of the Interior are having fee-free days that commemorate significant dates beginning with Presidents Day Feb. 20.
People are invited to a fee-free day Feb. 20 at Bureau of Land Management lands, including national conservation lands, wilderness areas and national monuments; Fish and Wildlife Service’s marine national monuments, wildlife refuges and wetlands; plus the Bureau of Reclamation’s New Melones Reservoir, Lake Berryessa or Stony Gorge Reservoir, a Department of the Interior blog reported.
“When I was raising my child Somah, I didn’t have a lot of money and relied on free opportunities to offer them experiences in the outdoors,” U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland said in a Feb. 6 Twitter post. “@Interior has a great list of Fee Free Days to help make our public lands accessible to all.”
The first day of National Park Week is April 22, and visitors can have a fee-free day at monuments, national parks or historic sites managed by the National Park Service, the blog post reported. A list of the fee-free days is available in the blog post.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service website has a list of fee-free days through the Adventure Pass program. The National Forest Adventure Pass is required for designated sites and areas at “the Angeles, Cleveland, Los Padres and San Bernardino National Forests,” the Forest Service website said.
Adventure Pass vendors in Southern California are listed online.
The Department of the Interior manages more than “400 national parks, 560 national wildlife refuges and nearly 250 million acres of other public lands,” the DOI website said.
