Let’s Make Sure No One Wants to Visit America
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Foreign tourists visiting popular US national parks like the Grand Canyon and Yosemite will need to pay an extra fee, the Trump administration says.
The Department of the Interior, which runs the country’s national parks, said each international visitor will need to pay $100 (£76) per person on top of existing fees to access 11 of the most popular sites.
From 2026, non-residents will also need to pay more than $250 for an annual pass to the parks, while US citizens and permanent residents will continue to pay $80.
The fee hike aims to “put American families first” and reflects President Donald Trump’s goal to make the parks more accessible and affordable for US citizens, said the department.
First, it’s quite obvious Donald Trump does not care about making the national parks more accessible or affordable for American citizens, I mean give me a break. He’s slashed NPS funding left and right, fired people, all the stuff he’s done across the government. Second, even outside of the national park issue itself, the attacks on tourism across the country has done little but hurt Trump’s own supporters. Canadians used to flood into Florida every winter, now they are staying away like the plague. Who is impacted by tourists not entering the rural areas of the nation where these parks are, in places such as Utah, Wyoming, and Montana. It’s obviously Trump country. This is the kind of thing that is just idiotic on the face of it. There might be a case to raise the prices for the parks–they are a hell of a lot less expensive to get into than taking the family of four to Olive Garden. But this is the dumbest possible way to do it.