Photo: Free National Park Weekends Start Saturday



U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced in June 2009 that entrance fees at 147 national parks and monuments—including Utah's Arches National Park (pictured)—will be waived on June 20 and 21, July 18 and 19, and August 15 and 16, 2009.

Photograph by Bruce Dale/NGS


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