Making America Beautiful Again by Improving Our National Parks
Signed July 3, 2025·Donald Trump·90 FR 30201
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Directs the Secretary of the Interior to develop a strategy to raise entrance fees and recreation pass fees, including the America the Beautiful Pass and site-specific passes, for foreign visitors to national parks and federal recreational lands, while working with the Secretary of Agriculture as needed. Requires that added fee revenue be used to improve infrastructure and access at federal recreational areas, and directs steps to improve affordability and services for United States residents. Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to work with the Secretary of State to promote international tourism to underutilized areas, review the National Park Service's maintenance backlog and implement the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund, and review Interior Department rules on public use of parks, rescinding recreational access restrictions—especially those from the prior administration—and granting American residents preferential treatment where allowed by law. Revokes a 2017 presidential memorandum on diversity and inclusion in national parks, forests, and public lands.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered
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Revokes: Memo. of January 12, 2017
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Executive Order 14314 of July 3, 2025
Making America Beautiful Again by Improving Our
National Parks
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Policy. From the awe-inspiring Grand Canyon
to the tranquility of the Great Smoky Mountains,
America's national parks have provided generations of
American families with unforgettable memories. It is
the policy of my Administration to preserve these
opportunities for American families in future
generations by increasing entry fees for foreign
tourists, improving affordability for United States
residents, and expanding opportunities to enjoy
America's splendid national treasures.
Sec. 2. Making America Beautiful Again by Improving Our
National Parks. (a) The Secretary of the Interior shall
develop a strategy to increase revenue and improve the
recreational experience at national parks by
appropriately increasing entrance fees and recreation
pass fees for nonresidents in areas of the National
Park System that charge entrance fees or recreation
pass fees as defined in 16 U.S.C. 6801. Additionally,
to the extent consistent with applicable law, the
Secretary of the Interior, working with the Secretary
of Agriculture as appropriate, shall take steps to
increase the prices at which the America the Beautiful
Pass--the National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands
Pass--and any site-specific agency or regional multi-
entity passes are sold to nonresidents.
(b) The Secretary of the Interior shall use any
increased fee revenue generated pursuant to subsection
(a) of this section to improve the infrastructure of,
or otherwise enhance enjoyment of or access to,
America's Federal recreational areas, consistent with
16 U.S.C. 6807.
(c) The Secretary of the Interior, working with the
Secretary of Agriculture as appropriate, shall take
steps to improve services and affordability for United
States residents visiting national parks, as consistent
with applicable law.
(d) The Secretary of the Interior, working with the
Secretary of State, shall work to encourage
international tourism to America's national parks and
outdoor recreation areas, and especially wider
utilization of America's many such areas that may be
underutilized.
(e) The Secretary of the Interior shall review the
maintenance backlog within the National Park Service
and take all appropriate action to fully implement the
National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund
established in the Great American Outdoors Act (Public
Law 116-152), invest in the infrastructure of national
parks, and increase visitor capacity to allow more
Americans to visit national parks.
(f) The Secretary of the Interior shall review all
of the Department of the Interior's rules and policies
related to public use of national parks and take
actions consistent with applicable law to ensure that
the National Park Service manages national parks
consistent with the policy of this order. The Secretary
of the Interior shall review all of the Department's
recreational access rules and take steps to rescind any
that unnecessarily restrict recreation in national
parks. In conducting this review, the Secretary of the
Interior shall especially scrutinize all recreational
access rules or other restrictions promulgated or
enacted during the prior administration. The Secretary
of
the Interior shall take appropriate actions to grant
American residents preferential treatment with respect
to any remaining recreational access rules, including
permitting or lottery rules, consistent with applicable
law.
Sec. 3. Revocation. The Presidential Memorandum of
January 12, 2017 (Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in
Our National Parks, National Forests, and Other Public
Lands and Waters), is hereby revoked.
Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the
head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
(d) The costs for publication of this order shall
be borne by the Department of the Interior.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 3, 2025.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed July 3, 2025. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.