National parks to rethink plan to hike entrance fees after widespread anger

Public comment period saw more than 100,000 messages, many condemning proposal to raise fees as high as $70

The Department of the Interior said on Tuesday that it planned to revise a controversial proposal to drastically increase entrance fees at some of the most popular national parks in the country.

The interior department press secretary, Heather Swift, said the Trump administration decided to rethink its proposal after Americans flooded the National Park Service (NPS) with more than 100,000 comments, many of them sharply critical of the proposed surge pricing scheme.