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Entrance Fee Increase Proposed at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Vancouver, WA
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Fort Vancouver National Historic Site is soliciting public comments via the National Park Service (NPS) public comment website (PEPC) and US Mail concerning possible fee increases in 2018. Under the park's proposal, the entrance fee to the reconstructed stockade site would change from $5 to $7 in January 2018 for an individual, and would remain valid for re-entrance for seven days. The park's annual pass would remain at $30 in 2018, and would continue to allow admittance of four adults. The proposed fee increase affects the reconstructed stockade site only. Access to park grounds, trails, roads, and facilities outside of the reconstructed stockade site would remain free of charge. Facilities that will remain free of charge to access include the Visitor Center and Pearson Air Museum, and the national park's green space including the parade ground, great meadow, and the waterfront in Vancouver , WA. In addition, the McLoughlin and Barclay Houses and the park they are situated on at the national park's McLoughlin House Unit in Oregon City, OR, will also remain free.
This entrance fee increase is part of a larger National Park Service initiative to standardize fees in similar national parks across the country. Entrance fees have been collected at Fort Vancouver NHS for more than 20 years. At National Park System sites, where fees are collected, 80% to 100% of fees collected remain at the site to support projects with a direct visitor connection. Parks can propose projects and compete service-wide for funding from the remaining 20% of fees collected. At Fort Vancouver NHS, the additional revenue from the fee increase will be used to enhance visitor services, including repair and maintenance of park facilities, rehabilitation of visitor service buildings, and repair and replacement of equipment and materials to enhance park programming and special events.
Examples of projects funded through the fee revenue funds at Fort Vancouver NHS include replicating nineteenth century furniture for museum display and use in living history special events onsite, creating new trail maps, replacing viewing decks along the Columbia River waterfront, adding accessible trails within the reconstructed stockade, adding picnic tables and trash receptacles throughout the park, and replacing playground equipment at the popular playground near the Visitor Center, improvements to the bandstand and the picnic shelter as well as the McLoughlin and Barclay Houses. Fort Vancouver NHS has also successfully competed service-wide for projects funded through the 20% recreational fee funding source. The Visitor Center rehabilitation is an excellent example.
A 30-day public engagement period on the proposed fee increase is open from August 1, 2017 through September 3, 2017. Feedback will be accepted via this PEPC site and U.S. Mail at: Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Attention: Proposed Fee Increase, 612 E. Reserve St., Vancouver, WA 98661. In addition, comment cards will available at the Visitor Center for the visiting public to share their thoughts on this matter.
Entrance fees are not charged to persons under 16 years of age or holders of the America the Beautiful- - National Parks and Federal Recreational Annual, Senior, Access, or Military passes.
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site is a strong economic engine for the surrounding area. In 2016, over 1 million visitors visited the national park. The new entrance fee could be implemented in late January 2018. Comments received during the 30 day public comment period will inform the agency's decision on how or if a fee increase will be implemented.
This entrance fee increase is part of a larger National Park Service initiative to standardize fees in similar national parks across the country. Entrance fees have been collected at Fort Vancouver NHS for more than 20 years. At National Park System sites, where fees are collected, 80% to 100% of fees collected remain at the site to support projects with a direct visitor connection. Parks can propose projects and compete service-wide for funding from the remaining 20% of fees collected. At Fort Vancouver NHS, the additional revenue from the fee increase will be used to enhance visitor services, including repair and maintenance of park facilities, rehabilitation of visitor service buildings, and repair and replacement of equipment and materials to enhance park programming and special events.
Examples of projects funded through the fee revenue funds at Fort Vancouver NHS include replicating nineteenth century furniture for museum display and use in living history special events onsite, creating new trail maps, replacing viewing decks along the Columbia River waterfront, adding accessible trails within the reconstructed stockade, adding picnic tables and trash receptacles throughout the park, and replacing playground equipment at the popular playground near the Visitor Center, improvements to the bandstand and the picnic shelter as well as the McLoughlin and Barclay Houses. Fort Vancouver NHS has also successfully competed service-wide for projects funded through the 20% recreational fee funding source. The Visitor Center rehabilitation is an excellent example.
A 30-day public engagement period on the proposed fee increase is open from August 1, 2017 through September 3, 2017. Feedback will be accepted via this PEPC site and U.S. Mail at: Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Attention: Proposed Fee Increase, 612 E. Reserve St., Vancouver, WA 98661. In addition, comment cards will available at the Visitor Center for the visiting public to share their thoughts on this matter.
Entrance fees are not charged to persons under 16 years of age or holders of the America the Beautiful- - National Parks and Federal Recreational Annual, Senior, Access, or Military passes.
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site is a strong economic engine for the surrounding area. In 2016, over 1 million visitors visited the national park. The new entrance fee could be implemented in late January 2018. Comments received during the 30 day public comment period will inform the agency's decision on how or if a fee increase will be implemented.