Acadia wants to get Every Kid Outdoors


Via MDIslander: The Every Kid Outdoors program aims to spark a lifelong interest in America’s outdoors

Via the Mount Desert Islander (full story)

The Mount Desert Islander reports:

Last year, 2,249 fourth grade students and their families visited Acadia National Park without paying an entrance fee.

No, they didn’t sneak in. They came with a free pass, which they printed out at the Every Kid Outdoors website.

Every Kid Outdoors is a federal program created to spark a lifelong interest in America’s outdoors and its natural and cultural history. Each pass, which is good for one year starting Sept. 1, allows entry into more than 2,000 National Park Service units, national forests, national wildlife refuges and other federal lands.

Every Kid Outdoors is the successor to Every Kid in a Park, a National Park Service program initiated by President Barack Obama in 2015. It is exclusively for students in fourth grade.

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