Are you a National Parks Annual Pass holder? If not, and you’re one of the 327.5 million people who visited a national park last year, you likely spent a substantial amount on admission fees alone.<\/p>\n
The average cost is $30 per vehicle, but some parks charge more. Keep in mind, that’s just for a single park. If you were, say, road-tripping through Utah and taking on the best hikes in Arches and Canyonlands<\/a><\/strong>, you could easily spend upwards of $100 \u2014 just to get inside the gates.<\/p>\n That’s where the National Parks Annual Pass, also called the America the Beautiful pass, comes in.<\/p>\n In January 2020, we were fortunate enough to have won the “lottery” to get sunrise reservations at Haleakal\u0101 National Park<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in Maui. When I say fortunate, I mean beyond<\/em> fortunate \u2014 these tickets go in literal seconds and only a handful of people get them.<\/p>\n Anyhow, I digress. The Haleakal\u0101 entrance fee was $30 and we were going to pay again the following day to hike Pipiwai Trail, so purchasing the National Parks Annual Pass was a no-brainer for us. We went on to use it at nine other parks in 2020, including multiple times at Zion National Park<\/strong><\/a>, so it was money well-spent.<\/p>\n Jump ahead to:<\/p>\n<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n