BLM announces 2025 fee-free days

BLM announces 2025 fee-free days

Dec 26, 2024

A family hiking on BLM-managed public land. Photo by by Craig McCaa.

During this holiday season of giving, the Bureau of Land Management presents the fee-free dates for 2025. On these days, and throughout the year, all are invited to experience the stunning beauty and endless adventures on BLM-managed lands.

"In 2025 and beyond, we encourage everyone to embrace the magic of your public lands," says BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning. "With BLM's fee-free days, we expand public access opportunities on these incredible landscapes."

On BLM-managed lands, the fee-free days for 2025 are:

• January 20 (Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.)
• June 19 (Juneteenth National Independence Day)
• July 16 (BLM's Birthday)
• August 4 (Great American Outdoors Act Anniversary)
• September 27 (National Public Lands Day)
• November 11 (Veterans Day)

On Fee-Free Days, the waiver applies to recreation standard amenity and day-use fees on BLM lands, including visitor centers, picnic/day use areas and National Conservation Lands units where fees are charged. Expanded amenity fees and other fees (i.e., group day-use, overnight camping, cabin rentals, and individual special recreation permits for the use of special areas) will remain in effect. BLM manages approximately 3,365 developed recreation sites. The vast majority of those special places are already free of charge for the public to enjoy. Search BLM recreation sites here.

For information on BLM-managed locations participating in the 2025 Fee-Free Days, visit the webpage here. BLM-managed public lands offer a wide array of recreational opportunities, including hiking, hunting, fishing, camping, mountain biking, horseback riding, boating, whitewater rafting, off-highway vehicle driving, rock climbing, and more. For more information, view the BLM Recreation Permits and Fees webpage and www.recreation.gov. Other federal land management agencies offering their own fee-free days in 2025 are the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Forest Service, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

About the Bureau of Land Management: BLM's more than seven decades of leading the way in public land management began in 1946, when President Truman merged the General Land Office and the Grazing Service into one Bureau. BLM serves as the country's largest public lands steward, managing one in every 10 acres in the United States, and approximately 30 percent of the nation's minerals. These lands and minerals are found primarily in Western states and encompass forests, mountains, rangelands, arctic tundra, and deserts. BLM lands are also sources of clean air and water, carbon storage, and some of our nation's best remaining wide-open spaces, and serve as the lifeblood of many local economies-supporting energy development, livestock grazing, timber harvesting, ranching and farming, outdoor recreation, and many small businesses. BLM manages our multiple-use mission by basing decisions on the best available science and the on-the-ground knowledge and experience of many partners.

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