Fee-free days announced for national parks

File photograph Serena Rothfus, or Sessie, the mascot of the sesquicentennial a few years ago of the Battle of Pea Ridge, turned toward civil war re-enactors after they fired a canon to remember fallen soldiers on the Battlefield at Pea Ridge National Military Park.
File photograph Serena Rothfus, or Sessie, the mascot of the sesquicentennial a few years ago of the Battle of Pea Ridge, turned toward civil war re-enactors after they fired a canon to remember fallen soldiers on the Battlefield at Pea Ridge National Military Park.

The National Park Service turns 100 years old in 2016 and wants everyone to celebrate! All national parks, including Pea Ridge National Military Park, will waive entrance fees on special days in 2016.

The entrance fee-free days for 2016 will be:

• April 16-24 -- National Park Week

• Aug. 25-28 -- National Park Service Birthday Weekend

• Sept. 24 -- National Public Lands Day

• Nov. 11 -- Veterans Day

For information, call 479-451-8122 ext. 227 or visit the website at www.nps.gov/peri. The National Park Service can be followed on Facebook.

Pea Ridge National Military Park preserves the site of and commemorates the March 1862 Civil War battle that helped Union forces maintain physical and political control of the state of Missouri. Administered by the National Park Service, the 4,300 acre battlefield is located six miles east of Pea Ridge on U.S. Highway 62.

Community on 01/27/2016