--- title: Free National Parks Passes for Families Are Now Up for Grabs description: Thanks to a new initiative called Every Kid in a Park, all fourth graders can now get free admission to national parks for a year. authors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2015-09-01T13:27:52.000Z' modified: '2024-05-16T10:26:53.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - deals - freebies - great outdoors - vacations word_count: 223 canonical: https://money.com/national-parks-pass-free/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Redwoods National Park, California](https://img.money.com/2015/08/150901_em_kidsnationalparks.jpg?crop=0px%2C219px%2C2100px%2C1182px&quality=85) *Redwoods National Park, California* The [National Park Service's 100th anniversary](http://www.nationalparks.org/our-work/celebrating-100-years-service) is being celebrated in 2016, and the party starts early for families with kids in fourth grade for the 2015-2016 school year. As President Obama announced earlier this year, the parks service is launching a special initiative for the centennial to help engage and attract children and families to our national parks and the great outdoors. It is called [Every Kid in a Park](http://www.nationalparks.org/ook/every-kid-in-a-park), and starting September 1, all fourth graders in America are entitled to a free Every Kid in a Park Pass, which grants free admission for one's family—or an entire car-full at locations that charge by the car—to all U.S. national parks, forests, monuments, and wildlife refuges. The pass is valid for an entire year, starting September 1, 2015, and lasting through August 31, 2016. Consider it the equivalent of the National Park Service [America the Beautiful annual pass](http://www.nps.gov/findapark/passes.htm), which costs $80. If you're lucky enough to have a child in fourth grade this year, consider this your excuse to visit one—or five, or seven—national parks in the year to come. Parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite charge $30 apiece as an entrance fee for visitors with a car, so this pass is a tremendous value. 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