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Go Frolicking in the Park for Free During National Park Week

March 24, 2011 at 9:46 AM | by | Comments (0)

Outdoorsy types, get your hiking boots on and backpacks ready. National Park Week is set for April 16 to 24, giving you the chance to explore 394 national parks for free all week long. Freebies include national monuments and historic sites.

While a number of national parks are usually free, more than 100 of them charge you to enter. So you'll save the $20 car fee at Yosemite and Rocky Mountain National Park as well as the $25 vehicle fee at the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone.

This year's park week will follow the theme "Healthy Parks, Healthy People" and explore the connection between human and environmental health and the role America's parks play in both. It also helps that the week coincides with Earth Day, which is April 22.

In addition to the fee-free days, the parks will offer special National Park Week activities. North Carolina's Congaree National Park will throw NatureFest 2011 on April 16 and 17 and lead nature walks and canoe tours as part of the free fun. At Pennsylvania's Steamtown National Historic Site, you can board a historic or vintage steam locomotive for a short train ride starting April 17.

[Photo: AmandaWalker]

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