In 2026, Americans will get free admission to national parks on President Donald Trump 's birthday but no longer on Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, according to the National Park Service website .
Previously, the National Park Service included these two federal holidays among its free-entry days for around 100 park sites.
Federally recognized in 2021 under the Biden Administration, Juneteenth has been celebrated for more than a century and a half. The day commemorates the final end of slavery in Confederate states just after the end of the Civil War.
The NPS also added more free-admission days for next year – calling them "patriotic fee-free days" – such as Trump's birthday on June 14, July 4th weekend and the 110th Birthday of NPS.
The Department of the Interior did n

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