Is the $80 National Park pass worth it for your year?

Add the parks you plan to visit. We’ll total the entrance fees and tell you whether the $80 America the Beautiful annual pass pays off — with the free and discounted Senior, Military, Access, and 4th-grade passes built in. Every fee comes from nps.gov.

Before you buy — a few things this tool can’t do.

Fees change. Always confirm the current fee on each park’s nps.gov page (linked in the sources) before buying. Fees here were checked June 2026.
Reservations are separate. Timed-entry permits (Arches, Rocky Mountain, Yosemite, and others) and special roads (Acadia’s Cadillac Summit) cost extra and are not covered by any pass.
Great Smoky Mountains has no entrance fee but charges a parking tag ($5/day, $15/week, $40/year) that the pass does not cover — so the pass saves you nothing there.
Most parks charge per vehicle (everyone in the car is covered). A few (like Denali) charge per person. The pass covers one vehicle, or the holder + 3 adults walking in.
Single-park annual passes (e.g., Grand Canyon $70) can beat the $80 interagency pass if you only ever visit one park. This tool compares against the $80 pass.
Some parks have free fee-free days each year.

Methodology & sources

The math is simple and honest: we add each park’s current entrance fee times the number of separate trips you’ll make, then compare that total to the cost of the pass you qualify for. The pass “wins” once your total entrance fees would exceed its price. Free and discounted passes (Senior, Military, Access, 4th grade) are included with their current prices. Per-park fees and pass prices are taken from the official NPS pages below; each park in the picker links to its own nps.gov fee page.

Tool data REV . Refreshed periodically against nps.gov.