Beginning April 15, Maine’s Acadia National Park will transition to a fully cashless fee system of mobile payments, credit cards or debit cards at park sales outlets for entrance fees. Visitors who are only able to pay with cash may purchase a park pass from one of nine local third-party vendors.
Cash sales represent less than 5% of in-person sales in the park. During peak season, Acadia’s rangers spend up to eight-and-a-half hours per day documenting, reporting, and transferring cash receipts.
Moving to a cashless system will reduce the amount of time park staff spend managing cash and increase their availability to collect fees, increasing the amount of fee revenue available to support critical projects and visitor services.
Entrance fees are a critical source of revenue used to improve the experience for visitors in national parks. For example, entrance fee revenue supported last year’s repair of the Bubbles Divide Trail, repairing comfort stations in our historic campgrounds, and removing hazard trees across the park.
More information about visiting the park can be found at www.nps.gov/acad.
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The only cash I carry is a roll of quarters so I can do my laundry. I haven’t carried cash for over 10 years.
Are the third-party vendors paid a fee by the parks to provide such a service. I doubt they will do it for free.
The only problem I have with cashless systems is the service fees that are always passed on to the customer.
What a scam… @@
Thank you, RV Travel! Good to know. Have a great day and safe travels!
I prefer to pay cash, of course I have no choice to make campground reservations with a credit card. I despise merchants who charge you 3% to your credit card for to accept payment. Not accepting cash hurts the poor.