Now you can visit dozens of state historic parks for free through 2026. Here's how

From present done July 6, residents and tourists alike tin download the California State Parks Historian Passport for free, allowing them entree to much than 30 authorities historical parks crossed the authorities done the extremity of 2026.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the inaugural Wednesday successful grant of some Juneteenth and the the 250th day of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

“California’s authorities historical parks sphere immoderate of our nation’s astir almighty and meaningful stories, and I’m arrogant to unrecorded successful a authorities that celebrates diverseness to link much radical with those stories done this limited-time escaped pass,” California State Parks manager Armando Quintero said successful a statement. “I anticipation the escaped Historian Passport introduces much Californians to the state’s historical gems and sparks a curiosity and thirst for cognition that leads to galore instrumentality visits.”

The walk typically costs $50 and allows unlimited introduction for up to 4 radical to authorities historical parks and museums that complaint a per-person admittance interest oregon a conveyance day-use fee.

Historic parks successful and astir L.A. County that judge the Historian Passport include:

• Will Rogers State Historic Park successful Pacific Palisades, which features hiking trails, picnic areas and a polo field.
• Los Encinos State Historic Park successful Encino, wherever visitors tin larn astir Indigenous civilization and Spanish colonization.
• The Antelope Valley Indian Museum, which has exhibits astir Indigenous cultures from the Antelope Valley, California coast, Great Basin and the Southwest.

Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park

(Courtesy of California State Parks, 2026)

Other parks that judge the walk are:

• Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park successful Tulare County, wherever visitors tin observe a restored and reconstructed buildings of Allensworth, a California municipality that was founded, finances and governed by African Americans successful the aboriginal 1900s.
• Jack London State Historic Park successful Sonoma County, which features hiking and biking trails, and historical buildings.
• The State Indian Museum State Historic Park successful Sacramento, wherever you tin larn astir California’s divers Indigenous populations.

A afloat database is disposable astatine parks.ca.gov.

To download a escaped pass, sojourn ReserveCalifornia.com and click “Passes” successful the precocious main menu. From here, you’ll beryllium prompted to either make a caller relationship oregon log into your existing account. Once logged in, you tin usage the dropdown paper connected the leafage to prime “Special Edition Historian Passport 2026 - $0.00.” You tin past cheque retired with your walk and volition rapidly person it added to your database of passes wrong your account.

Leaders with the California State Parks Foundation and the California State Railroad Museum Foundation, which helped concern the initiative, said they anticipation the escaped Historian walk opens up entree to much radical to spot our nationalist lands.

“California authorities parks assistance america recognize the past of California, the United States, and the ongoing enactment of gathering a much inclusive democracy,” said Rachel Norton, enforcement manager of California State Parks Foundation. “The peculiar variation Historian Passport is simply a large accidental to research authorities parks for free. We anticipation entree to the Historian Passport encourages much Californians to sojourn a historical authorities parkland and larn about, and bespeak on, our shared history.”