FREE admission to National Parks on June 9th

Get outside this weekend and get to your nearest National Park. In honor of Get Outside Day (Saturday, June 9) more than 100 national parks are waiving the entrance fees! Go to the National Park Service website to see what parks are participating.


And here are the other 2012 FREE Parks days, so you can mark your calendar:

■September 29, National Public Lands Day
■November 10-12,Veterans Day weekend

Here are the participating parks in Virginia:


Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
Assateague Island National Seashore
Colonial National Historical Park
George Washington Memorial Parkway's Great Falls Park
Manassas National Battlefield Park
Petersburg National Battlefield
Prince William Forest Park
Shenandoah National Park

Here are the participating parks in Maryland:


Antietam National Battlefield
Assateague Island National Seashore
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park
Fort McHenry NM and Historic Shrine National Monument
Fort Washington Park
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park