{"id":1417042,"date":"2011-09-19T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/land-of-the-free-no-entry-fees-at-us-national-parks-on-saturday-september-24\/"},"modified":"2018-10-26T14:04:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T14:04:39","slug":"land-of-the-free-no-entry-fees-at-us-national-parks-on-saturday-september-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/land-of-the-free-no-entry-fees-at-us-national-parks-on-saturday-september-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Land of the Free: No Entry Fees at US National Parks on Saturday, September 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Celebrate Public Lands Day with free admission and a chance to give back <\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Visitors to National Parks across the United States can enjoy free entry this Saturday, September 24, in celebration of Public Lands Day. Along with free admission, visitors will also get a chance to give a little back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 2,000 volunteer events will take place across all 50 states and in Washington D.C. in what organizers are calling the largest 1-day volunteer event in the nation. Volunteers will work at parks across the country to remove debris, help with small construction efforts, and weed out invasive plant species.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The volunteer efforts will amount to an estimated $15 million in improvements, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Can\u2019t make it out this Saturday? Don\u2019t worry; another chance at free sightseeing is just around the corner. Entry fees at all parks will be waived once again over Veteran\u2019s Day Weekend (November 11-13).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Visitors should note that although entry fees will not be collected, charges for concessions, camping, and select tours will still be in effect.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.usatoday.com\/destinations\/dispatches\/post\/2011\/09\/take-a-hike-give-back-free-entry-to-national-parks-for-national-public-lands-day\/547764\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">USA Today <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate Public Lands Day with free admission and a chance to give back &nbsp; Visitors to National Parks across the United States can enjoy free entry this Saturday, September 24, in celebration of Public Lands Day. Along with free admission, visitors will also get a chance to give a little back. More than 2,000 volunteer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97200568,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417042\/revisions\/97200568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}