VANLIFE ESSENTIALS: THE AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL NATIONAL PARK PASS - WHAT A DEAL!!!!
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- Welcome to Lulu's Way!! I'm glad you are here!!!
In this video, I'm with my vanlife galpal, Luanne, from Arizona! Last fall, we traveled all through Arizona together for six weeks. We had so much fun and adventure together!! See the links below for a few of our favorite videos together!
Luanne shares with us all her wisdom about the America The Beautiful Pass available to us for reduced admission to national parks, campground fees, and lots of other perks!!
For more info:
usparkpass.com/
WHERE TO PURCHASE AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL PASSES:
Online: store.usgs.gov
In person: Federal recreation areas and offices, National Park visitor centers, Entrance stations, Fee booths, and REI sporting goods stores.
INTERAGENCY SITES THAT HONOR AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL PASSES:
Bureau of Land Management www.blm.gov
Bureau of Reclamation www.usbr.gov
Fish and Wildlife Service www.fws.gov
USDA Forest Service www.fs.usda.gov
National Park Service www.nps.gov
US Army Corps of Engineers www.usace.army.mil
VIDEOS MENTIONED:
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Did I hear you right Luanne? 76?!? No way! 💕 You're a doll!!!
Well thank you, now I think you're the doll😁
Love my America the Beautiful Senior pass. Just remember to have your ID ready. They do check them. I have also had some state parks give me a discount for having the senior pass.
Both you ladies are just a ray of sunshine,! You brighten my day Lulu ! I just got my pass 2 weeks ago❤️ I just purchased my van. My son is having to go threw chemotherapy right now, but when he gets well I am hitting the road. Thank you Lulu for giving this worried mom a break for a few minutes, watching your videos takes my mind off cancer for a few minutes a day. Stay sweet my utube friend!❤
Luanne looking absolutely beautiful! Definitely glowing! What a wonderful friend Lulu! I got the Senior lifetime pass as soon as I turned 62! It was part of my retirement plan! It is wonderful! Thank you wonderful ladies for sharing!
What a joy to see both your beautiful smiling faces! 🥰
Greetings from North bay Ontario. I enjoyed the video. .but I want to let you know that thanks to you. I am 5 days a "lulu" eater LOL. Sticking to the program. Encouraged by being down 2 pounds! I know that will slow as time goes on. But I am enjoying my meals.. easy to prep for, faithfully weighing my food, and no desire to nibble!! Thank you, thank you. Christine.
YAY YOU!!! keep at it!! it will serve you well!! 😊
We bought our America the Beautiful Pass in August 2017, the last week it was $10.00 for lifetime Senior pass. We travel full time and this pass has saved us SO much money. Free entrance for up to 4 people on your pass. Also 50% off camping at Federal Lands and Army Corps Recreation Areas. An enormous savings! Y'all are so good together and such fun to watch the two Lulus!
Thank you! I am a army veteran and senior and had no idea about this!
Lulu!! My nephew and I made you a dance video to our favorite song, Ready To Dance!! But I don’t Facebook and I don’t know how to get it to you. We LOVE your positivity, energy and LIGHT! Thank YOU!!
oh, I'm so excited to see it!! email it to me at lulusweigh@gmail.com!! 😊
Magnolia Beach Tx is free camping, it has Restrooms dumpster and showers. I camped their last 2 winters for a few days. If it gets too windy or cloudy , Victoria Texas has electric water hook ups dumpster for 12$ a night, no restrooms about 30 to 40 minutes from magnolia beach.
I bought my lifetime pass in 2009 and back then it was $10.00. $80.00 is still a terrific deal considering all the benefits!
Luanne!!!! So nice to see you!!!
Teacher here🙋♀️. Insight into why fourth graders get passes... fourth graders in every state study their state during their 4th grade social studies class. The E.K.I.P ( Every Kid In a Park) program provides a great way for students to enjoy the parks in their state during their 4th grade year as an enrichment of their academic year. I taught 4th grade for a while and got to take my classes on FREE field trips because of it and several parents registered their children and went right back out to the park with their entire family. It's a GREAT free incentive to get families out in nature with their little ones.
My parents enjoyed their senior pass for $10 (decades ago)
I was with them when they bought it out in Arizona.
Great vlog Lulu and Luanne. Lots of great information!!!
Texas does have palm trees. I have one in my back yard. Not sure if the Texas beaches have palm trees on them like Luanne’s background, but there are nice sandy beaches, which reminded me a lot of Florida, when I visited!
Wonderful to see Luanne, you are both fantastic ❤
It's good to see the Lulu's together!!
As a retired 4th grade teacher, I remember when they started the program❤
I used it with my 4th grade class. What a great program! Happy retirement. I'm almost there.🎉
I’m leaving home base in a few days, heading to the North west to see National parks will be using my pass a lot. Safe travels everyone 🤗💕
Thanks for the informative video. I'd heard about the America the Beaitiful pass a few years ago but never could figure out how to purchase it. Your link went straight to the site☺️
Luanne!💜 I love you two together! I’ll see you soon Luanne ! We’re camping out on Monday ✌🏽
hi Lucille!! ❤️
Great information, ladies! Nice to see Luanne again. Lulu love watching, as usual.
great seeing luanne and the two of you together. luanne looks fabulous. looking forward to seeing your texas beach series. continued travel mercies and blessings.🕊
Hello from a native Texan! Love your channel & uplifting videos.
Texas beaches aren’t known to be the most beautiful, but there are palm trees. I love the feel of the ocean breeze, the feel & smell of the warm salt water, & the sight & sound of sea gulls overhead.
Galveston has my favorite seafood restaurant, Guido’s, right on the sea wall! It’s been there for ages and is quite an experience for the senses. Their food & service are always wonderful, the decor is beautiful “old Galveston” style, & their gift shop is a fun place to wander around & pick up souvenirs like pretty oyster shell wind chimes. I haven’t been there lately (other than for cruises out of port Galveston) but this makes me want to go just to stay at the beach!
South Padre Island has a beautiful white sand beach. There is an amusement park there with a go kart track that’s really fun! It has a wooden track that winds up & down & all around. Im 72 & still love to ride go-karts!
I haven’t been to Corpus Christi as much so can’t tell you much about it. I just remember thinking the town driving toward the beach was lovely & they do have palm trees.
If you know which beach you’re going to, I’d love to make a road trip and meet you there in person. I just love your happy, fun outlook on life & well-being. I’m a widow & free to go!
I love Luanne, she’s a hoot, can’t wait til you two go on your trek this fall. Dollar stores look out, here comes the Lulu’s 😂❤
Have fun, your pal Susie ❤
Love LouAnn. Enjoy the two of you together also. ❤
Great info, thanks!
Great Info! I think I'll share this with a couple of people. That pass for 4th graders would be a great deal for maybe their End of Year field trips, or if teachers are doing a unit on identifying trees, bugs, wildlife, etc. Thanks Lulu and Friend. Have fun on your upcoming trip!
HI Lulu and Luanne🙋♀️ So great to see you ♥️😊 Enjoyed the video, very informative ❤️😊 Have a great day ♥️😊
I love this information. You two ladies are the best. Thanks for spreading the word and have a wonderful week.😊
My senior pass just allowed me to make reservations at BLM campgrounds in New Mexico for $9 a night. Water and electric included. Bonus!
Thanks for all the great information! Any advice and info on Seniors saving money as that please post!
It was so much fun watching you all last year in the West! 🕺 🎵 🏖️ 🌞 🏊 ❤
The Lifetime Senior Pass was the best thing I've ever spent money on. It has paid for itself multiple times over.
Terrific! If you go to a lot of national parks, a fun thing to get is the national park passport book. Each national park, historic site, etc has a stamp you can use in the visitor centers to document your travels. We got one when my son was younger and we still use it.
Love Luanne! Happy to see her again!
I have the access pass for disabilities. Free. Yay!
There's also freebies and discounts to museums for snap recipients
Very informative. Thank you for bringing this resource to our attention. ❤
I have two senior passes, one in my car and one in my purse. Got them when they were $10. I appreciate them no end!!
Great info!
Mine looks much different, but I bought it almost exactly eight years ago, on the morning of my 62nd birthday. It was only $10 back then, and I wasn't letting that slip by. The America the Beautiful Pass also gives you discounts at many state parks. Here in Oregon, we only pay half price.
The pass is priceless!!! ❤❤❤
Very helpful information! Thanks for this! Luanne, you’re a peach! My dad always says how many turns around the sun he is. I’ve never heard anyone else use that phrase - I love it! 💜
Hi Lulu
Hope you are having a good day today.
We have 3 annual passes and next year we are turning them in and paying our $20 for the lifetime pass. We camp at the national parks on the OuterBanks and get the 50% off each night. They have 3 campgrounds if you go to the national park side of the outerbanks and not the tourist side. Not a lot of places to buy groceries so bring plenty. We have taken the free ferry over to Ocracoke Island and the National campground there is half price too. All of them are just a walk over the sand dunes to the Ocean. Love the national park campgrounds because most of them are in nature and not those parking lot campgrounds that cost a fortune. Why pay for a parking lot when you got a Cracker Barrel. We also used the pass to camp in the smokey mountains. No cell phone service but right on the river and the spots were so far from each other. It was so peaceful.
Here in Southern California, local libraries are issuing State Park day passes. You can use the pass for a one day trip to the beach, the mountains, or just about any historic site in the State of California.
I was lucky enough to get my America the Beautiful senior pass for $10, just before they raised it to $80. I only used it on one trip that year but it is still in my wallet!
Thank you ladies! Good information here.
I wish Canada had this for provincial and conservation parks 😢. I may need to look into this here just in case.
Good information and good to see Luanne.
Yea, been wondering about that.
❤❤❤you ladies are fabulous
Thank you. This was so helpful!❤️
It used to be only 20 year veterans with a military disability could get a free Access pass. Several years ago they changed it to any military veteran or active duty. A real bonus is the Corps of Engineers campgrounds (almost always on a body of water) and Federal National Sites and byways (ie: Skyline Drive) for free! fyi: In the State of Maryland has a lifelong senior pass that offers half price camping Mon-Thurs and the real plus is you do not need to be a MD resident,
Thank you for the information!
You are fantastic! You remind me of me. Yay!
then that means you're fantastic too!! FANTASTIC!! 😊
I am so enjoying your videos - we have a lot in common! I’ll be 67 in November, I am very independent (I’m on my own now as I lost my wonderful husband 6 years ago) and I love to travel. I’m checking into the pass!
Yellowstone is $50 to pay to get into the park. And that’s every time you enter. I got mine the day I turned 62. I was so excited to turn 62 just to get the Senior pass. I’ve saved so much money staying at COE campgrounds, you can stay at them for 1/2 price. Some state parks also will honor the Senior pass. Too bad Oklahoma State Parks don’t honor it, but the Oklahoma COE honor them.
Great information! I would like to see more videos on how to navigate the journey of van life/travel across the U.S. I am almost ready to be a road warrioress. And yes! REI is nationwide. They are an outfitter and advocate for getting people outside. They offer grants toward upkeep of trails and waterways. They are more than a sporting goods store.
Thank you for the info! I just bought an annual pass :)
Don't forget to bring the pool lol
she's bringing the pool to Texas!!! we're going to set it on the sand and fill it with water from the ocean. it really doesn't make sense, but that's why it's so fun!! it's better than a pool at the desert with no water in sight!! LOL
The water in the pool no chance of sharks
😂😂😂
Great video. I heard of the pass, but I forgot about it. I was pleasantly surprised that you can get the senior pass at 62. Yay.
I live in South Eastern Ky. The pass gets half price on camping at the core of engineers campgrounds.
I have the one for Disabled. Have had it since my brain injury in the late 1990's. I lived 14 miles from Yosemite! Camping at Army Corp of Engineers is half off. Hmm.... Leanne said Free! Maybe things have changed. Will check it out!
I got mine at the Yosemite Park Entrance. Had to show my proof of Social Security Disability.
Darn auto correct changed Luanne to Leanne!
Yes the disabled "Access" pass is free now. I can't promise all Core of Engineers camping is free, but I know they're listed as one of the Interagencies and worked for the ones I've visited.
All fourth graders study their home state as part of their Social Studies curriculum. That’s why states give that grade level the passes.
Great information, I was at Quartzsite this past winter, I think I met Lulu either there or maybe at the volunteer event in Pahrump with HOWA. Or may I just wish I had, but, I know that face and personality from somewhere. 🙂
I was in quartzsite last fall for a brief time, and I also met Bob Wells in Pahrump for a van tour and a dance!!!
Meeting Bob Wells: czcams.com/video/Mv-qu23i6aA/video.htmlsi=p8vsOjzmwwWqc3o9
Bob Wells' tour of my van: czcams.com/video/jPhufFFc-YE/video.htmlsi=jlhpekLA5ekKcFYc
@@rosaglem1905 I was not at any event. I went to one of Bob Wells caravans in Pahrump, stuck around there until our appointment to van tour.
@@LulusWay64, that is where I was, Pahrump for Bob Wells event which is where I was part of the time, but, it is at the caravan site where I too stayed briefly, but,. They have video of people gathering at the Pahrump camping where people were gathered and I am in it.
I have it and plan on using it. Good to know about the campground discounts. Thank you Ladies!
Wow this is great information! I am just getting into the car camping scene and have been trying to find sites that are great to camp at! Thank you so much for all this great information!
Some State Parks take this pass. I have used it in New Hampshire. Always ask !
I got it years ago when it was $10.
I did as well! We got a deal!😊
Us too
We used to have the America the Beautiful pass years ago. It was worth it when we did travel. Very informative and I may do it again alone since my spouse passed away:) Thank you, ladies and come on down to Texas! :)
we'll be there soon!!! 😊
My daughter’s 4th grade teacher gave us a copied paper pass to the National Parks at the beginning of the year and during every teacher’s conference. We live in Northern Colorado tho, so that may be why. But I forgot about it and last year we went to Saguaro Ntl Park and I am a dummy and didn’t realize that you could use that pass at all Ntl Parks. The ranger acted like she wanted proof tho that my daughter was a 4th grader b4 I showed her the paper, so if you know ur going to a Ntl Park, ask the teacher to get you a copy or bring ur kid’s birth certificate 😂
Its been awhile since I used it.but this review was very encouraging.
.guess i need to hit the road again.
After watching this I knew I have a park pass for something so I looked. It's the ATB pass Senior!!! Yay I only paid $20 tho but now know how to pay. Thx Lus
THANK YOU ❤❤
I would love to come and meet both of you ladies. Yall are a hoot, just like me.
Awesome! I will be getting mine!
Thank you for information ❤❤
I bought my senior pass at Acadia National Park. Luanne you look like you’re on the beach.
haha!!! that was a carefully selected background, she was sitting at her desk! LOL
No bears. Watch for sharks
And maybe alligators in the marshy areas
What about SILVER STAR families, Luanne?
Unfortunately I didn't see Silver Star mentioned anywhere, but that might tie into the Disabled Access Pass
@@luannekent6048 That’s .. crazy. My Son earned himself a Purple Heart 💜 in Afghan 2010-2011. One would think these Men wouldn’t need to be tied in w another cause. These guys likely won’t want to have to “convince” some park guy/gal that they’re deserving of a discount. 🤦🏻♀️
Anyways 🤷🏻♀️, thank you 😊.
National Forests (USFS)
I bought mine last year at a National site and they would only accept payment by card.
I have an access pass. It's free for disabled
Can a Canadian get an America the beautiful pass?
I think you can get what's called an "Annual" pass, but it's only for entrance and day use fees; it doesn't cover camping.
Yes you can buy a $ 80.00 annually
REI sells America the Beautiful Pass. - but NOT the SENIOR pass.
I wonder - if you add your Park Passes to the WALLET app on your iPhone - will parks honor it or must the physical pass be shown?
You'd have to call and see if they would allow the Wallet App. Personally, I've never been asked to show my pass. I'm registered with Recreation.gov and my card # is stored in there, but someone could ask for it I guess.
P.S. Half off of $14 is $7, not $9. I'm sure my calculation had something to do with my age😁
LOL
Arizona has a beach and Palm trees 🌴 now? 😂
LOL!!!! the wonders of technology!! 🌴
Can Canadians also buy this pass ?
I don't know!! give them a call!!!
‘The other one’ wow 😂
Are these passes registered to the person or to the person and their vehicle(s)??
just the person.
Hi luann, Marilyn down here in Sierra Vista. How's the pool.
the pool is all packed, it's coming to Texas with her!! this ought to be a scream!!! 😊
The pool is great--you might see it again in the future (but don't tell Lulu)
Thanks , great info 😊