"U.S. National Parks Get The Go-Ahead To Raise Entrance Fees"

"If you're headed to a U.S. national park this fall, be sure to savor the last of the leaf peeping -- and what could be the last of the low admission prices.

The National Park Service has given 131 national parks permission to raise their entrance fees starting in 2015. Per-person prices could jump as much as 50 percent in Yosemite National Park and triple in Olympic National Park, majorly boosting the cost of a parks experience for the first time in about nine years.

The idea? To make U.S. parks their prettiest for the National Parks Service's 100th anniversary in 2016... and to get some new visitors in the gates."

Suzy Strutner reports for the Huffington Post October 27, 2014.