With the federal proposal released this week visiting national parks would get more costly. The National Park Service said that they are planning to cut off $12 billion in maintenance projects.

Under this plan, 17 popular national parks in U.S are raising their weekly pass to $ 70. These parks include Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Zion and Yellow Stone. Other than these 3 parks in Maine and Virginia would be affected.

The agency has collected around $200 million as entrance fees last year. With this raise, they are expected to raise $70 million. They are planning this raise to be in five busiest months.

The parks get 70% revenue from these entrance fees only. National Park is breaking visitation records from past three years. Park Service has a backlog of $ 11.3 billion. Every year Park Service allocates more than $ 1 billion.

By A.s