Buy America The Beautiful Pass as I enter Yellowstone
Instead of ordering the pass online can I buy it as we arrive at the entrance gate at Yellowstone? We're heading there in four weeks.
Forum Discussion
kyhawk wrote:
Great Smoky Mountain National Park doesn't have an entrance fee.
You can thank Tennessee for that, not the Feds. All of the land in GSMNP was privately owned and US 441 (Newfound Gap Rd) was a major route through the mountains. When Tennessee transferred ownership to the Feds they put in a deed restriction that states no toll or fee shall ever be imposed to travel on the road.... hence no entrance fee.
Now North Carolina on the other hand "abandoned" their portion of 441 so their are no restrictions and if they wanted the Feds could charge an entrance fee from the NC side.
