Seasonal & Holidays
On MLK Day Of Service, There’s No Charge To Visit These RI Attractions
Admission will be waived at more than 400 National Park Service-managed facilities across the country, including ones in Rhode Island.
NEWPORT, RI — Entrance fees will be waived at national parks, museums and other facilities (adjust based on NPS facilities in your state) run by the National Park Service in YOUR STATE on Monday, Jan. 16, for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday honoring the life and legacy of the slain civil rights leader.
Admission will be waived at more than 400 National Park Service-managed facilities across the country. Among the places in Rhode Island with free admission Monday are:
- Blackstone River Valley, Woonsocket, North Smithfield, Lincoln
- Roger Williams National Memorial, Providence
- Touro Synagogue, Newport
- Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route; see Rhode Island locations here.
MLK Day is the only federal holiday designated as a day of service. Many of the national parks and places where King and the civil rights movement he influenced made history are among sites managed by the National Park Service. Those include the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park in Atlanta; the Selma to Montgomery Historic Trail, which traces the footsteps of King and other civil rights activists in the 1965 Voting Rights March in Alabama; and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech.
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In Rhode Island, the Blackstone River Valley National Park is looking for volunteers MLK Day of Service. You can find opportunities here.
Thousands of volunteer projects are taking place in National Park Service-managed facilities on MLK Day of Service. The parks service said the holiday is a call for volunteerism to help bring about systemic changes that make the just, equitable and inclusive communities King dreamed of possible.
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The National Park Service has free entrance day at the facilities it oversees five times a year. Other days this year when admission is free are:
- April 22: First day of National Park Week
- Aug. 4: Anniversary of the Great American Outdoors Act
- Sept. 23: National Public Lands Day
- Nov. 11: Veterans Day.
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