This moment outdoors is brought to you by L.L. Bean, official partner of the National Park Foundation for

the Find Your Park Movement. It's the time of year when people around the world are planning their adventures to America's national parks.

And we thought this would be the perfect time to explain one of the things we most commonly get questions about.

Annual Park Passes. I'm Jason Epperson. questions about annual park passes.

I'm Jason Epperson and I'm the host here at the America's National Parks

podcast as well as the See America and the RV Miles podcast.

They're all part of the R.V. Miles Network, a resource my wife

Abigail and I have built to help United States travelers get the best out of their

journey. The information on today's episode is also available on a video over at the RV Miles YouTube channel if you'd like to check it out there.

Over the next few minutes, we're going to cover all the passes available for the parks.

Why to choose which one and where to get them.

So first of all, what we're actually talking about is an interagency pass. It's not just for

national parks, it's a federal pass that gives you access to national parks, fish and wildlife service sites, Forest Service, Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Land Management,

any federal recreation sites that charge a fee for the most part. These passes give you access to.

And there are three main types.

There's the annual pass, the senior pass, and the access pass.

So let me start with the annual pass.

The annual pass is available to anybody that wants to purchase one and it's $80 a year.

It gets you and your carload, you plus three adults, kids 16 and under are free,

into federal fee charging facilities, including national parks.

It doesn't give you any sort of discounts on anything other than that.

It just provides admission to parks and other federal sites for a year.

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