This year marks the 100th Anniversary of the National Park Service. In celebration, Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site in southeastern Colorado is waiving its admission fees for all of 2016. Starting last week, the national park will be free to all visitors. “We think of this as a gift to both the traveling public and local folks,” said Park Superintendent Alexa Roberts. She added, “It seems like a great way [for] those from the local area who have not visited recently to reconnect with the national park here in their own backyard.”
The free admission is actually part of a pilot program, reports The Prowers Journal. The park is evaluating if the revenues gained from fee collection exceed the costs involved in collecting them.
The National Park Service was established by Act of Congress and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on August 25, 1916.
