     When the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission meets this Thursday in Valentine, it will consider a staff recommendation to raise the cost of park entry permits by 16% next year.
     The hike would boost the cost of an annual permit for Nebraska residents by $5 to $35 while the daily resident permit would rise $1 to $7.
Non-resident annual permits would go up $10 to $70 with daily perming going from $12 to $14.
Last year’s annual Game and Parks report said park entry permit sales totaled $8.68-million dollars.
      That’s about 8% of the agency’s total revenue and roughly half of the revenue received from hunting licenses and camping/lodging fees, which were each almost $17-million.
Entry permit sales were down about 11% last year, which Game and Parks blamed on inflation and high fuel costs last summer.
Agency staff also felt the 2021 figures were unusually high because pandemic restrictions earlier that year and in 2020 had left people excited to get out as they flocked to state parks and other outdoor areas not closed by COVID-19.
They are plenty high right now.
JUST STOP BUYING PARK PERMITS !!!!!! THERES PLENTY OF PLACES TOO GO THAT DON’T REQUIRE PARK PERMIT !!!!!!!!! NO BODY BUYS A PARK PERMIT !!!!!! SEE HOW MUCH REVENUE THEY MAKE ON PARK PERMITS !!!!!!!!
Live in Nebraska and have the ability to enter any State Park in the state whenever you want for a whole year for the low low price of $35?!! Seems more than fair to me.