Re: Can you buy a used National Park annual pass?
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 6:43 pm
Great post, Daisy. Us, too. We never mind paying for the stuff we love...and we love the idea of using some of the money we've saved with our senior pass to pay for someone else who might not be able to afford it otherwise.Wandering Daisy wrote:The cost of an annual pass is well worth it if you use the parks a lot. It is too bad there is not a bit of a discount for low income. I now have the free "senior" pass. Although I appreciate it being free, I would be willing to pay half price if the other half discount could go to a low income family. The pass is good for a car-load of people. So if you go with others it is a better deal.
Put into perspective of other costs, I thin the interagency annual pass is a good deal. The California State Park Pass is way more expensive. I just spent $100 getting my teeth cleaned. Just skip this once and you have a park pass. Or haircuts? Go without a few. Before I qualified for the Senior Pass, I bought a pass every year. It was one expense that I did not feel bad about because I feel it goes to support the public lands. Even when I had little money, I would never think of "cheating" the system. In my mind I sort of figured it was a donation to a good cause.
We take our company (20+ people ach year)_ for a camping trip every year in the Sierra--sometimes a national park, sometimes a state park or national forest. We pay all the associated fees for the employees and their families/friends/significant others. We've done it for 22 years now. And over the years, we've seen quite a few "hesitant" or even "resistant" campers turning into enthusiastic ones. Best of all, at least two of our employees got so enthusiastic that they organized additional trips for their own friends to turn them on to the idea. Our parks need all the friends they can get!
Hahaha will do!