U.S. National Park Service Free Entrance Days
/There are over 400 national parks covering over 84 million acres throughout the United States and its territories. The majority of these parks do not charge entrance fees (though parking fees often apply). As for the roughly 110 national parks that do have entrance fees, there are a number of designated "fee free" days each year.
Here are the National Park Service Free Entrance Days in 2025:
January 20 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)
April 19 (First Day of National Park Week)
June 19: (Juneteenth National Independence Day)
July 16 (Bureau of Land Management’s Birthday)
August 4 (Great American Outdoors Day)
September 27 (National Public Lands Day)
October 12 (First Sunday of National Wildlife Refuge Week)
November 11 (Veterans Day)
The parks that normally charge a fee that are free on the above dates are listed at www.nps.gov/findapark/feefreeparksbystate.htm. California parks in this category include:
Plenty of other amazing national treasures are on this list, like Grand Canyon National Park.
And of course there are two national parks in Ventura County that are always worth exploring:
For more information about the National Park Service, visit www.nps.gov.