Shutout park visitor returns to challenge no-cash entrance

By Michael Doyle | 03/05/2025 04:23 PM EST

The National Park Service allows individual parks to determine whether to accept cash or require credit card use only.

U.S. currency on a counter.

A revised lawsuit challenges a National Park Service policy that allows parks not to accept cash. Charles Krupa/AP

A frustrated national park lover is back in court in hopes of overturning a no-cash entrance fee policy that allegedly shuts out would-be visitors to some of the nation’s natural treasures.

Two weeks after a federal judge tossed their initial lawsuit, a New York state resident represented by San Diego-based attorney Ray Flores II filed a revised suit Tuesday that’s intended to clear the initial bar that doomed the first challenge.

“I trust that the amended complaint lays out the issues clearly enough for the court to arrive at a favorable ruling on the merits,” Flores said in an email.

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Like the initial suit, filed last March, the new case brought in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recounts how Toby Stover in January of 2024 tried to visit the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site in Hyde Park, New York. A ranger greeted her.

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