Day-use recreation fees at national forests in Washington and Oregon will be waived Saturday and June 11 in celebration of, respectively, National Trails Day and National Get Outdoors Day.
Thirty recreation fee sites exist in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest of Southwest Washington.
Among them are the Goose Lake boat ramp; Thomas Lake, Cultus Creek and Indian Heaven trailheads near Indian Heaven Wilderness; Ape Canyon, Ape Cave, Lahar and Lava Canyon sites on the south side of Mount St. Helens; Lower Falls; Packwood Lake trailhead and the Trapper Creek and Whistle Punk trailheads in the Wind River valley.
Other fee-free days will be National Public Lands Day on Sept. 24 and Veterans Day on Nov. 11.
