Senior Pass Price Hike

rockhillmanor wrote:
Anyone know 'why' the increase? Did they gov cut funding for it when we weren't looking?

The increase is part of a large group of "corrections" for several things about the National Parks.

Introduced in March 2016, one small part of the law "equalizes" the fee charged for the Senior Pass to be the same as the fee charged those under age 62 for the Annual Pass. The set dollar figure for the Senior Pass was eliminated.

The full bill is available . Here

EDIT

Here is a discussion from when the increase was first proposed Senior Pass Price Increase

A part of the discussion is that the National Parks need more money. Costs of running the parks have gone up, like everything else. Setting the Senior Pass cost the same as the regular access pass enables the parks to deal with increased costs.

Seniors still get a huge break in the revised law in that we do not have to buy our pass again each year. It is still s lifetime pass. Also we get discounted camping and other fees, most of which do not apply to the Annual pass