WEEKEND: National park to waive entrance fees Sunday

Published 12:01 am Friday, August 23, 2013

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Olympic National Park, along with all other national park service areas, will waive entrance fees Sunday.

Other park fees, including wilderness camping and campground fees, will remain in effect.

The fee waiver is in recognition of the 97th anniversary of the National Park Service, which oversees 401 national parks.

This year also is the 75th anniversary of the creation of Olympic National Park.

It was June 29, 1938, that President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill establishing Olympic National Park.

President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation that created the National Park Service on Aug. 25, 1916.