{"id":23670,"date":"2016-12-23T22:34:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T06:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23670"},"modified":"2016-12-23T22:34:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T06:34:21","slug":"2017-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/2017-free\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 National Parks Free Days Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/silzep.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shaping up to be a year filled with promise, we&#8217;re just 8 days away from 2017 &#8212; and 23 days away\u00a0from\u00a0Martin Luther King Jr. Day on\u00a0January 16\u00a0when\u00a0admission to national parks is free for a day! Like 2016, National Park Service has set aside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/parks\/national-parks-free-days.html\">10 free admission days<\/a>\u00a0for the new year. While some of\u00a0the nation&#8217;s most popular fee-based parks happen to be in California, the agency says less than one-in-three (124 of the 413 national parks) charge entrance fees\u00a0ranging\u00a0from $3 to\u00a030 per day. The other\u00a0289 are free to see every day.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>National Park System includes more than 84 million acres.<\/li>\n<li>There is at least one national park in every state.<\/li>\n<li>More than 20,000 employees care for national parks.<\/li>\n<li>307 million people visited a national park last year.<\/li>\n<li>In a single year visitors spend $16.9 billion at national parks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaping up to be a year filled with promise, we&#8217;re just 8 days away from 2017 &#8212; and 23 days away\u00a0from\u00a0Martin Luther King Jr. Day on\u00a0January 16\u00a0when\u00a0admission to national parks is free for a day! Like 2016, National Park Service has set aside 10 free admission days\u00a0for the new year. While some of\u00a0the nation&#8217;s most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23670"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}