National Park Service

It supported an $118 million bridge at Yellowstone National Park, employee housing at Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado, wastewater upgrades at Great Basin National Park in Nevada and hundreds of other projects.

Conservation and historical groups sued as the Trump administration targeted hundreds of exhibits on climate change, civil rights and diverse communities.

Many visitors objected to what they saw as an attempt to downplay difficult chapters of American history.

The National Park Service recorded 323 million visits in 2025 at parks, historic sites, monuments and recreation areas, about a 3% decline from 2024’s all-time high.

Scott Socha is an executive at Delaware North, a company that contracts with the National Park Service to provide lodging and food at several national parks.

The National Park Service started free entry days in 2009. The selection and number of days have varied, but Martin Luther King Jr. Day has been on the list ever since 2011.

Congress' budget proposal for the National Park Service rejects the major slashes requested by the Trump Administration last year.

The National Park Service says it is going to start charging international tourists an extra $100 to enter some of the most popular U.S. parks. They will be left out of fee-free days that will be reserved for American residents.

During the lapse in federal funding, Utah and Colorado, along with several nonprofit partner organizations, stepped in to keep key visitor services running.

The Trump Administration is using revenue from recreation fees to keep bathrooms clean and trash tidy at national parks during the shutdown. But parks are not charging fees at this time.