Since January 1, every non-US resident aged 16 and up pays a flat 100 dollars a head on top of the roughly 35-dollar entrance fee at 11 of America's busiest parks. A foreign couple driving in owes 235 dollars at the gate. This is not conservation pricing; it is "America-first" branding stapled to a gate.
It arrives bundled with the president's face on the resident pass and his June birthday turned into a fee-free day, while Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day lose theirs. Follow the money out the gate and it lands in the towns: foreign visitors stay longer and spend more, and Bryce Canyon just posted its lowest attendance since 2015, down 21 percent. The system still fills up with Americans, but they do not fill the hotel ledgers the same way. A price on the passport was never going to read as hospitality.
