About the Toolkit We need your help spreading the word about the Park it Forward parking tag program—and we've made it easy! See the drop-downs below for ready-to-use content to share with your organizations, employees, and individuals in your community. We invite you to join us in this historic initiative!
Valid parking tags are required on any vehicles parking for longer than 15 minutes. Approved parking rates are $5 for a daily parking tag, $15 for a weekly parking tag, and $40 for an annual parking tag. All revenue stays in the park to provide sustainable, year-round support focusing on improving the visitor experience, protecting resources, and maintaining trails, roads, historic structures, and facilities. Visitors who simply drive through the park will not need a parking tag.
Park it Forward Messaging
Visit our Flickr album for graphics and logos. These are all in the public domain. They are various sizes and styles for social media, webpages, or print.
January 17, 2023: Great Smoky Mountains National Park announces early sales of 'Park it Forward' annual parking tags
August 15, 2022: Park announces 2023 fee program changes April 6, 2022: Park invites public to comment on fee program changes for 2023
History of why the park does not charge an entrance fee. Civic Engagement Results from April 2022. 
A black header with white text, "Parking tags: Know before you go" and "Great Smoky Mountains National Park". The brown National Park Service arrowhead logo is at the top right. The rest of the page is filled with a blue background that fades into the silhouette of rolling Appalachian mountains and pine trees. A white text box reads, “A valid parking tag must be displayed when parked for more than 15 minutes anywhere in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. You can purchase your tag online or in person.” A black silhouette graphic of the front of a car is right of the text box, with a white parking tag on the passenger side of the window circled in orange. Black text on the light blue background lists guidelines:
QR code is at the bottom of the poster with text to its right, “SCAN ME or visit go.nps.gov/GRSMfees for more information on fees.” 
A black header with white text, "Where can I get a parking tag?" and "Great Smoky Mountains National Park". The brown National Park Service arrowhead logo is at the top right.
Black text below says, "Visitor Centers (daily, weekly, and annual tags). Be sure to check hours of operation.” Visitors centers are listed with bullets.
A white background with bold, green and brown capital text in two lines that says, "Park it Forward". "PARK" is green, and the 'A' has the National Park Service logo in it. "IT FORWARD" is brown. At the bottom, thinner green text says, “Great Smoky Mountains National Park”. |
Last updated: November 25, 2025