NPS Announces Fee Free Days For 2024
The National Park Service has announced the days in 2024 that there will be no fee to park in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. On most days, you need to purchase a parking pass in order to park for over 15 minutes in the national park. But, there are six days next year that will be fee-free days. The first of those dates is in January on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day which is January 15.
Other fee free days in 2024 are…
The First day of National Park Week on April 20;
June 19…Juneteenth
August 4…Great American Outdoors Day
September 28…National Public Lands Day
and the final fee free day will be on Veterans Day, November 11.
Parking passes can be purchased for all other days by going to the website www.recreation.gov.