The National Park Service Will Only Take Plastic at Its Parks. Three Visitors Are Suing to Use Cash

The visitors said that the cashless policy violates federal law.

Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes at Death Valley National Park. The National Park Service does not accept cash for payment of entry fees. An Ojai woman is among those suing. Christopher Reynolds/Los Angeles Times/TNS

By Summer Lin From Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES—The National Park Service has been sued over its policy of accepting only payment of credit cards or debit cards for entry fees and refusing to take cash, a policy the agency that manages national parks, national monuments and other sites adopted last year.