National Park Service announces 16 free days for 2016
By | Posted Dec 3rd, 2015 @ 11:39am
The National Park Service was founded on Aug. 25, 1916, and since then, 84 million acres comprising of 409 sites — 58 of which are national parks — have been established across the U.S., according to the organization’s website.
The parks, monuments, recreation areas, battlefields and seashores collectively contain more than 18,000 miles of trails, 27,000 historic and prehistoric structures and 247 species of endangered and threatened wildlife. Read more here…
The free days for 2016 are:
- Jan. 18: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- April 16-24: National Park Week
- Aug. 25-28: National Park Service’s 100th birthday weekend
- Sept. 24: National Public Lands Day
- Nov. 11: Veterans Day