It's also one of the four days of 2018 that you can get into any and all the country's National Parks without paying a fee. (After April 21st, the next one will be September 22nd and then Veterans Day -- which will also be the last day of 2018 to get in without paying a fee.)
Of course, before we get to National Parks Week, we have Presidents Day and here are some events taking place Monday:
- Fees: No fee for program, monument entrance fees apply.
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Time: 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Sunset strolls are a great way to
end your day. Enjoy a leisurely one-hour ranger-guided walk through sand
dunes and learn about the geology, plants, and animals of this unique
area.
- Fees: Free
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Walk 18 laps around the Park Trail to earn your commemorative Washita 150th coin.
- Fees: Free
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Time: 1:30 PM to 2:00 PM
Walk 53 laps around the Dust and Fire Trail to earn your commemorative Washita 150th coin.
- Fees: Free
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Time: 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Pearl Harbor Visitor Center
- Fees: Free
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Time: 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Celebrate the 286th birthday of America’s first President.
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Home NHS Discovery Trunks Available
- Fees: Free
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Monday, February 19, 2018
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President Clinton Birthplace Home
NHS have obtained discovery trunks from Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Home
National Historic Site.
- Fees: Entrance fees apply
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Time: 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Start with a stump of cottonwood, and end with a colorful and meaningful wooden Yaqui pascola mask.
- Fees: Entrance fee applies
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Time: 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Watch a fresh corn or flour tortilla being shaped and then cooked over a mesquite fired comal.
- Fees: Normal entrance fees apply
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM,2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Join a guide for a journey through the mission grounds
- Fees:
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Time: 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
2018 Park winter hours, December 31, 2017 thru March 31, are 10 am - 4 pm
- Fees: Free
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Time: 10:00 AM,2:00 PM
Come join the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail staff for a free daily interpretive program, talk or tour.
- Fees: Free
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Time: 10:00 AM,2:00 PM
Come join the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail staff for a free daily interpretive program, talk or tour.
- Fees: Free
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Monday, February 19, 2018
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Meet at the Giant Forest Museum for this ranger talk.
- Fees: House Tours - $10 for adults
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Monday, February 19, 2018
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Sagamore Hill will be open for regular operations in observance of the President’s Day holiday on Monday, February 19.
- Fees: FREE
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Time: 12:30 PM to 4:30 PM
A talk about President Wilson, and living history presentations on Presidents
- Fees: Park Entrance Fee Applies
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Time: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Guided Walk:
Join a park naturalist on this 2-hr, 1-mile walk to discover how plants and animals adapt to life in the desert.
- Fees: Park Entrance Fee Applies
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Time: 9:45 AM to 10:45 AM
Short Hike: Sonoran desert mammals
are seldom seen, but they are present in great diversity and numbers.
Where are they? How do they survive in the desert climate? Come along to
learn the answers.
- Fees: Park Entrance Fee Applies
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Time: 3:00 PM
Garden Walk: Join us in the Cactus
Garden to discover the fascination world of desert plants and the many
techniques they use to live here. Wheelchair accessible.
- Fees: Entrance Fee Applies
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Time: 2:00 PM
Presentation:
Go on a fantastic trip across the Sonoran Desert with one adventurous
tortoise who called Saguaro National Park her home - until she set her
eye on farther horizons!
- Fees: Park Entrance Fee Applies
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Time: 2:15 PM to 3:00 PM
Talk and Walk:
Experience the desert from, a whole new view with this interactive photography program
- Fees: Free
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Time: 11:00 AM to 4:30 AM
View elephant seals through binoculars and scopes. Volunteer docents available to answer questions about elephant seals.
- Fees: Free
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Time: 11:00 AM to 4:30 PM
View gray whales through binoculars and scopes. Volunteer docents available to answer questions about gray whales.
- Fees: Free
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Time: 1:30 PM to 2:00 PM
Join a Ranger to learn about gray
whales as they migrate past Point Reyes. Learn about their habits and
adaptations, and hope for a whale sighting from the Observation Deck.
- Fees: $25/person
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM,1:45 PM to 2:45 PM
It's the 19th century, and George
Washington's Distillery has burned down. What has become of his famous
whiskey recipe? Rumor has it that it may be somewhere on the National
Colonial Farm
- Fees: $7 per person
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Time:
Sir Francis Drake Boulevard will
be closed beyond the South Beach Road junction on weekends and holidays
(and a couple Fridays) during favorable weather conditions. Bus service
to the Lighthouse and Chimney Rock is provided from Drakes Beach.