Montana’s tourism economy is centered on the outdoors — and nowhere is that more obvious than its national parks and monuments.

But beginning in 2026, the days in which visitors are allowed into them for free is changing, according to a press release from the U.S. National Park Service.

On Wednesday, it was also announced that a public lands group had sued the Trump administration for removing a photograph of Montana’s Glacier National Park on an annual pass as it was swapped for a collage portrait of George Washington and Donald J. Trump.

The Trump administration pushed back saying that the Glacier Park photograph would be used on national park passes for non-U.S. citizens, while the more common resident passes would contain Washington and Trump.

The Department of the Interior elimina

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