Explore America's national treasures with the adventurer Abby Hornacek while visiting the best sights across the country.
Don't let August slip away without a visit to one of the National Parks of America. On Monday, the National Park Service (NPS) does not go -on fees to celebrate the Great American Outdoors Act.
The Great American Outdoors Act and the Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund Signed in 2020 are 6.65 billion dollars for maintenance and repair projects in the national parks.
According to NPS, this financing has contributed to projects in all 50 states, Washington, DC and several US territories.
Yosemite Mules return to help the patrol to maintain the national park this summer
“It is supporting more than 180 Large scale infrastructure projects, including extensive improvements to iconic roads in Yellowstone, Shenandoah, Glacier, Theodore Roosevelt, Great Smoky Mountains, and Grand Teton National Parks. It has renovated campgrounds in Yosemite, Zion, Mount Rainier, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and Upgraded Vital Safe and Functional Water and Wastewater, HLK and Electrical Systems in Rocky Mountain, Acadia and Grand Canyon National Parks, “said the NPS in a press release.
A forecast for some of the national parks on August 4, Great American Outdoors Day.
The Fox forecast Center is watching a nice day across the country to enjoy a great day of the American outdoors. Parks in the southeast and in the middle Atlantic can see some showers.
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A river winds through the Yellowstone National Park in 2022.
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Utahs Capitol Reef National Park
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File – An entrance to the Glacier National Park in St. Mary, Montana, on October 19, 2023.
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Big Bend has a lot to explore.
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The Acadia National Park has almost 50,000 acres of breathtaking terrain along the wonderful Atlantic coast of Maine.
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The wood input sign for Yellowstone National Park, USA .. (Photo by: Jon G. Fuller/VWPICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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This photo shows the dry tortugas national park from Key West, Florida.
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The view of Death Valley National Park in August, the hottest and driest park of the nation in California and Nevada. (Image: Robert Ray/Fox Weather)
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File – St. Mary Lake and Peaks, Glacier National Park, Montana. (Photo by: Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group about Getty Images)
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In 2022, a Proghorn goes along a comb along Yellowstone National Park.
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Fort Jefferson is on the garden key in the distance. When he was intended as a fortress in 1846, it only served as a prison until it was closed in 1874. The Tortugas National Park was founded to preserve the area. Dry tortugas, Florida, USA. | Location: Dry Tortugas, Florida Keys, Florida, USA.
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The Park Service reports a record of 4.86 million visits to Yellowstone National Park in 2021.
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An aerial photo of Excelsior Geyser and Grand Prismatic Spring in Midway Geysir Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
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Many locations managed by National Park are free of charge, some require entrance fees, and high traffic locations require reservations. The NPs recently announced that they would do without entrance fees for all parks on certain days of the year.
According to 2024 NPS statistics, the Great Smoky Mountains, Zion, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and Rocky Mountain are the five best national parks that calculate access.
The next free entrance day is September 27th to mark the national public state parliament. The last free day of 2025 is Veterans Day on November 11th.