I didn't know such a thing existed, but learned about it on this video. I know this guy isn't RVing (at least it's not indicated he is), but I thought it was interesting!
I haven't heard of the National Park Traveler's Club either. Here is a link to the website.
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They have a new passport pass for the National Parks. The old ones still work. The new passports allow you get half price camping in the National Forest areas as well.
WyoTraveler wrote: They have a new passport pass for the National Parks. The old ones still work. The new passports allow you get half price camping in the National Forest areas as well.
I think you're confusing this with the Golden Age Passport, (the old one) & The America The Beautiful Senior Pass, (the new one), both of these will get you free entry to most National Parks & National Forests, & 50% off on camping in any non-concessionaire operated campground.
I don't think the Passport in the OP gets you anything except a neat way to record your travels & visits to our National Parks.
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I discovered the National Parks Passport when I returned to the U.S. in 2004. I found the idea interesting, but stayed away because it would just contribute to my tendency toward OCD. And if I did succumb to a compulsion to track my NPS visits, I would probably build a spreadsheet in Excel, or buy a guidebook that included all the parks and monuments, check them off in that.
I have seen visitors at National Parks or Monuments that strictly stop in to get their book stamped. Never understood that mentality !! Personally, I don't have the passport even though we've visited well over 150 parks/monuments....I have pictures to remind me.
It isn't anything new... We've had them since the late '70's. In fact we are working on our 3rd "Passport" books. Everywhere we go when sightseeing, we ask at the information desk if they have a "stamp"...doesn't matter what kind of stamp, we'll even take "For Deposit xxxxxx" stamps. Stickers, too. Doesn't matter, just so that it is an indication of "been there". At the end of the trip we cut them out (we carry brightly colored card stock for the stamps) and paste them in the appropriate area of the Passport. Sure, we could haul out one of 37 photo albums documenting our travels, but, leafing through the Passport is just as much fun and refreshes our memories of where we've been. We also collect patches, they have their own albums and hat pins. Got hundreds of each. Just another form of momento to log our journeys. The wife got into scrapbooking a couple of years ago and now we collect the "walking stick" curved plates if they have them...when we get back, I flatten them out in the shop and she adds them to the scrapbooks on the appropriate pages along with the pictures and interesting receipts (like when we take a train ride (we are addicted to old steam engines) or a day trip scenic cruise up a river or on a lake, etc. On each page (sometimes over several pages), she "tells the story" of that particular day; we actually don't print near as many photos as we used to (though we still take 1,000s; love that digital camera); she can do a great job of the highspots of each day of our trip in the scrapbook. We also, about 10 years ago got into the smashed pennies; just another keepsake.
Just another way to "enjoy" our travels, the Passport doesn't have to be just about National Parks.
My 2 cents, your mileage may vary...
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When we visit a national park we purchase one of the cloth patches that they usually sell. DW then mounts them in a lightweight picture frame and we put the frames up on a blank wall we have in our RV. We're working on our fourth picture frame.
It's nice to sit in the RV when we can't be out doing things and reminisce about things we did and saw in the parks we visited.
Buying the patch also gives a little financial help to "Friends of......"
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