Get into National Parks for free

We Pennsylvanians should count ourselves lucky.

We don't have to pay an admission fee to lounge at Gifford Pinchot State Park or take the kayak for a spin on the lake. That isn't the case at state parks in many nearby states, nor at the country's national parks.

Tuesday the National Park Serivce announced it will waive
entrance fees at 147 national parks and monuments -- including the Grand Canyon and Yosemite -- on three weekends this summer: June 20-21, July 18-19 and August 15-16.

The Park Service said 147 parks and monuments charge entrance fees that range from $3 to $25; the nation's other 244 parks are already free. Most Americans live less than a day's drive from a national park.

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