Donald Trump orders entry fee, DEI changes at national parks

It is about to visit America’s national parks, to be more expensive for international tourists, but this is not the only change ordered by the president. Donald Trump Park will affect visitors.
A New administrator order It calls out to the residents of the USA to charge higher wages for park entrance and recreation transitions, as in all year. America beautiful transitionThis provides access to public lands in federal institutions.
“The American National Parks, American National Parks, American families provided unforgettable memories to the American families,” Trump said in the order published on July 3, “from the Great Canyon, which aroused awe. He said.
“Increasing the entrance fees for foreign tourists, increasing the purchasability for the inhabitants of the United States and expanding the opportunities of America’s great national treasures to protect these opportunities for American families in the future generations,” he said.
Emir also requires the Americans to do “preferential treatment of recreational access rules, including permission or lottery rules.”
Any income obtained from foreign tourists at higher wages will return to infrastructure improvements and other improvements in federal recreation areas.
The Great Canyon National Park welcoming sign is seen from a view near the Arizona, Tusayan, June 28, 2025. Reuters/Kaylee Greenlee
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Unrelated Executive Order, presidential memorandum At the time, President Barack Obama signed in 2017, encouraging a series of diversity and efforts to include a series of diversity and efforts to include national parks and other public lands.
He called for all Americans to develop access and “to think about suggestions and suggestions from various population to protect historical, cultural and natural areas”.
Diversity and inclusion were also priority for parks during Biden management.
Before leaving the post in January, the National Park Service Director Chuck Sams Usa Today told the following: “When I took my office oath in the steps of the Lincoln Monument, Secretary (Deb) Haaland Said, the President of the United States, on behalf of myself and the American people, I blame you of these monuments, monuments and parks, but more importantly, we charge to find and violently say that we have yet to find out less or unstable.
“For the last three years, we were able to work all over the parking system to tell stories to make every American see a reflection in the parks.” He said.
However, the last move comes after Trump on the first day he returned to office in January. Government diversity, equality and inclusion programs were terminated It was founded under the biden.
Usa Today reached the Ministry of Interior and National Park Service to comment on the new executive order.
This article was initially published on the Usa Today: Trump orders national parks to get higher fees for some tourists




