Yellowstone? No charge. Rocky Mountain National Park? Your money is no good today.  Today is fee-free day when parks, refuges and rangelands offer free entry or waive the standard amenity fee for visitors. It is also one of their busiest days of the year so get there early.

Saturday, September 26, (the last Saturday in September) is National Public Lands Day, an annual celebration of the large amount of public lands owned by you and I, the American people.

The day provides free day use visitation to most national lands, including national forests, Bureau of Land Management, national parks and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It also provides some volunteer work projects at parks and national lands around the country.

Entry fees will be waived, but other fees for camping or concessionaire programs are still charged.

National Public Lands Day is the nation's largest, single-day volunteer effort for public lands.

NPLD began in 1994 with three sites and 700 volunteers. It proved to be a huge success and became a yearly tradition, typically held on the last Saturday in September. Since the first NPLD, the event has grown by leaps and bounds.

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