{"id":5359,"date":"2012-04-24T12:57:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T19:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=5359"},"modified":"2012-04-24T12:57:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T19:57:18","slug":"see-national-parks-free-during-national-park-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/see-national-parks-free-during-national-park-week\/","title":{"rendered":"See National Parks Free During National Park Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/nprks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happy National Park Week! With Earth Day and so many things going on, we nearly forgot about this fantastic time to save money. Many of California&#8217;s national parks charge between $10 and $20 to visit normally, but are free admission this week. You still have five days to take advantage of the free offer. Shown in photos above left to right are: Sequoia Kings Canyon NP; Yosemite NP famed Half Dome; Lassen Volcanic NP boiling Bumpass Hell.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The National Park Service waives admission fees on these\u00a0 days in 2012:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>National Park Week April 21 to 29<\/li>\n<li>Get Outdoors Day June 9<\/li>\n<li>National Public Lands Day September 29<\/li>\n<li>Veterans Day weekend November 10 to 12<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Here is the list of<\/strong><strong> California\u2019s 25 <\/strong><strong>national parks attracations you can visit free during these special days:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"..\/..\/attractions\/san-francisco-alcatraz.html\">Alcatraz Island<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/..\/parks\/san-diego-cabrillo-national-monument.html\">Cabrillo National Monument<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/history\/juan-bautista-deanza-trail.html\">California National Historic Trail<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/..\/parks\/channel-islands.html\">Channel Islands<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/mesquite-flat-dunes-in-death-valley-california\/\">Death Valley<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Devils Postpile<\/li>\n<li>Eugene O\u2019Neill<\/li>\n<li>Fort Point<\/li>\n<li>Golden Gate<\/li>\n<li>John Muir<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/..\/california-cities\/joshua-tree.html\">Joshua Tree<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Juan Bautista de Anza<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/parks\/lassen-volcanic-national-park-attractions.html\">Lassen Volcanic<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lava Beds<\/li>\n<li>Manzanar<\/li>\n<li>Mojave<\/li>\n<li>Muir Woods<\/li>\n<li>Old Spanish<\/li>\n<li>Pinnacles<\/li>\n<li>Point Reyes<\/li>\n<li>Pony Express<\/li>\n<li>Port Chicago Naval Magazine<\/li>\n<li>Presidio of San Francisco<\/li>\n<li>Redwood<\/li>\n<li>Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco Maritime<\/li>\n<li>Santa Monica Mountains<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/driving-through-trees-in-california\/\">Sequoia &amp; Kings Canyon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/whiskeytown-national-recreation-area-in-shasta-county-calif\/\">Whiskeytown<\/a>&#8211;\u00a0 During National Park Week, April 21-29, Oak Bottom Marina boat rental customers receive a free hat presented to the skipper\/contract signer. Other guests on the boat receive a free Oak Bottom Marina koozie.<\/li>\n<li>World War II Valor in the Pacific<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/..\/mountains\/yosemite-national-park-waterfalls.html\">Yosemite<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy National Park Week! With Earth Day and so many things going on, we nearly forgot about this fantastic time to save money. Many of California&#8217;s national parks charge between $10 and $20 to visit normally, but are free admission this week. You still have five days to take advantage of the free offer. Shown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359"}],"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=5359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}