Back in April, 2022, the California State Library system kicked off a new pilot program, in conjunction with California State Parks. Under this program, residents with an active California State Library card would be eligible to check out a California State Parks pass from their nearest library—including mobile libraries. That pass, in turn, would allow that library cardholder to visit any one of 200 California State Parks for free on their motorbike (or some other way, we suppose).
The program started out relatively small, with a total of 5,000 park passes distributed to 1,184 California libraries in the first year alone. That’s cool, of course—but for 2023, the good news is that the program is expanding. The 2023 California State Library system and State Parks system says that it’s adding 28,000 free State Parks passes to the program. These passes will be available at all California State Libraries—including tribal libraries. That means more access for more people to the great outdoors—for riders, hikers, and everyone who wants to use them.
