Cost To Visit Cumberland Island National Seashore Creeping Up

By Compiled From N... - March 3rd, 2023

The Dungeness Ruins, the skeletal remains of a mansion that burned down in 1959, are part of the island's rich human history/NPS file

The cost to visit Cumberland Island National Seashore is going up a bit in April/NPS file

The cost to explore Cumberland Island National Seashore off the Georgia coast is inching up a bit beginning April 1, according to a park release.

A 7-day pass to the park will be $15 for adults 16 and older. An annual park pass will cost $45 and cover four people. The current annual pass is $35 and will be sold until March 31. A weekly entrance pass provides seven consecutive days of access to all fee areas in the national seashore. The park annual pass provides 12 months of access to all areas from the date of purchase.

You may also purchase all America the Beautiful passes at the Cumberland Island National Seashore Visitor Center in St, Marys, Georgia. All America the Beautiful interagency passes cover the entrance fees for the pass holder and three accompanying adults. There are multiple pass options including, free annual passes are available for active-duty military and veterans, and for 4th grade students under the “Every Kid Outdoors” program. Access passes are free lifetime passes for individuals with a permanent disability. The annual Senior Pass remains $20. The price of the annual America the Beautiful National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Annual Pass and Lifetime Senior Pass remains $80. 

Entrance fees are an important source of revenue used to improve the visitor experience in national parks, including road and facility repairs and maintenance, trail improvements, installation of accessible exhibits, visitor and resource protection services, and more.

At Cumberland Island, nearly 100 percent of entrance fees are retained by the park and are devoted to maintaining facilities that directly serve visitors.

Cumberland Island's beaches are some of the prettiest in Georgia/David and Kay Scott file

Several upcoming projects at the national seashore are funded through fee collections, including rehabilitation of the Grange, trail maintenance, and installation of new exhibits and waysides. Recently completed projects using entrance fees include new Architectural Barriers Act ramps at Plum Orchard Mansion and Ice House cooling room.

Cumberland Island National Seashore is a fully cashless fee system and only accepts mobile or electronic payments for entrance and permit fees. Visitors may pay before they arrive at the park by visiting Pay.gov and searching for Cumberland Island, or by following this link.

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