Visitors to Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial will be able to enter the park for free beginning January 1, 2018.

Kendall Thompson, the superintendent at the park, announced the park would no longer charge for entrance because “these lands belong to, and should be accessible to, all Americans.”

In 1916, the National Park Service was created to care for and administer the national park lands on behalf of the American public. For more than one hundred years the agency has proudly served as the steward and caretaker of these national treasures.

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial is Indiana’s first national park. It is hoped that this move will encourage more citizens to visit the park and learn about the boyhood of Abraham Lincoln and his time in Indiana.

“Making the park more accessible to all people seems a most appropriate way to carry on the NPS tradition,” said Thompson, “and we look forward to serving even greater numbers of visitors in the future.”

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial is located off of Indiana Highway 162 in Lincoln City, Indiana.

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