I'll always be grateful for the roadtrip I took with my grandmother to visit as many national parks as we could stomach in the SW. Entrance fees to parks like the Grand Canyon and Arches can be $10 - $25 per vehicle and can really add up if you're visiting many in one trip. But citizens 62 yrs and older can get a lifetime "Golden Ager" pass for only $10 that gives free entrance to anyone in their vehicle to "national parks monuments, historic sites, recreation areas, and national wildlife refuges." It's also good for sites managed by other national agencies like the BLM, US Forest Service, Bureau of Reclamation, US Fish & Wildlife and USDA.
So if you ever had plans to pile the family into the old station wagon and road trip across America, I highly recommend grabbing a grandparent to take along for the ride!
For a list of which parks in which states are waiving their normal entrance fees, click here: http://www.nps.gov/findapark/feefreeparksbystate.htm .
NW National Parks include:
Oregon:
- Crater Lake National Park
- Lewis & Clark National Historical Park
- Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
- Lewis & Clark National Historical Park
- Mount Rainier National Park
- Olympic National Park and
- Whitman Mission National Historic Site
- Craters of the Moon National Monument
- Yellowstone National Park
It might be the perfect time to introduce the Monkey to Fort Vancouver. I've only been inside once on a school field trip and for a huge history nerd that's quite the travesty. 
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