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Digital Entrance Passes Available At Yellowstone National Park

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February 3, 2018

Yellowstone National Park has joined a handful of other parks that allow you to purchase your entrance pass online before your park visit/NPS

You can now download a digital pass to get into Yellowstone National Park. It won't enable you to drive through the entrance station without stopping, but will speed things up a bit if you're in a hurry to get into the park.

The digital passes, which became available this week, enable you to go online and buy your park entrance pass before your trip. You can print out the pass, or store it on your smart phone to display when you get to the park entrance.

It will not allow you to drive right on through the station and have the pass read electronically, as with E-ZPasses used to pay highway tolls. But that is something that could arise in the future.

“We are pleased to offer a digital option to purchasing passes at entrance gates and to usher in a new era of online convenience for our visitors,” said park Superintendent Dan Wenk.

YourPassNow provides an alternative to the traditional paper-based, in-person purchase method while also providing the park with a tool to help manage the visitor experience. Once purchased, passes are emailed and can be used immediately, stored on a personal device, or printed for future use. 

Yellowstone officials are optimistic that if more folks bought their entrance passes in advance, it could help quicken the pace of traffic entering the park.

In 2016, Acadia National Park (Maine), Colorado National Monument (Colorado), Theodore Roosevelt National Park (North Dakota), Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (California), Castillo de San Marcos National Monument (Florida), Everglades National Park (Florida), and Whiskeytown National Recreation Area (California) made online entrance passes available with YourPassNow. 

Yellowstone National Park 2018 annual and seven-day fees include: 

  • $60 annual entrance pass fee 
  • $30 seven-day entrance passes for a private vehicle
  • $25 seven-day entrance passes for a motorcycle or snowmobile 
  • $15 seven-day entrance passes for an individual
  • Persons under age 16 are admitted free

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Submitted by Susan Sargent on June 10, 2021 - 12:40pm.

Would like to buy a pass in advance but we will be driving a rental and do not have a license number. Is there any way to purchase under these circumstances?


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