Executive Order 14314 explained · Executive Order · No disposition noted
Making America Beautiful Again by Improving Our National Parks
Signed: 2025-07-03 Published: 2025-07-09 Federal Register document: 2025-12775
Agencies: Executive Office of the President
Federal Register notes (as of 2026-10-19): Revokes: Memo. of January 12, 2017
What Executive Order 14314 says
Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 129 (Wednesday, July 9, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 129 (Wednesday, July 9, 2025)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 30201-30202] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-12775] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 129 / Wednesday, July 9, 2025 / Presidential Documents [[Page 30201]] Executive Order 14314 of July 3, 2025 Making America Beautiful Again by Improving Our National Parks By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy. From the awe-inspiring Grand Canyon to the tranquility of the Great Smoky Mountains, America's national parks have provided generations of American families with unforgettable memories. It is the policy of my Administration to preserve these opportunities for American families in future generations by increasing entry fees for foreign tourists, improving affordability for United States residents, and expanding opportunities to enjoy America's splendid national treasures. Sec. 2. Making America Beautiful Again by Improving Our National Parks. (a) The Secretary of the Interior shall develop a strategy to increase revenue and improve the recreational experience at national parks by appropriately increasing entrance fees and...
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Executive Order 14314 directs stewardship of existing federal parks under the Property Clause and faithful execution of park statutes, raises voluntary nonresident fees to fund maintenance, favors resident access, and revokes a prior memorandum without infringing speech, due process, property, or sovereignty interests. Constitutionally sound federal property management.
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✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
For executive action, authority must trace to the Constitution and to a valid statute. Article II, Section 1 vests executive power and Article II, Section 3 requires faithful execution of the laws. The underlying federal power over parks rests on Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2, the Property Clause, which grants Congress power to dispose of and make needful rules respecting federal property, exerc… -
✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
No provision of the first ten Amendments is infringed. The order imposes no restriction on speech, religion, assembly, press or petition under the First Amendment, no disarmament under the Second Amendment, no search or seizure under the Fourth Amendment, and no criminal process issue under the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh or Eighth Amendments. Differential park entrance fees for nonresidents do not burd… -
✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
No restriction is placed on what a person may do with their person, property, speech, labor, or belief. United States residents are expressly favored with improved services, affordability, and preferential permitting or lottery treatment where lawful, while nonresident visitors remain invited under Section 2(d) and pay a higher voluntary fee only if they choose to enter fee-charging parks. The bur… -
✓ Passes · Decentralization
The action concerns the National Park System, which is existing federal property under Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2. An individual, family, county, or single state cannot manage Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, or other interstate federal parks, collect system-wide entrance fees, or address the National Park Service maintenance backlog. The order does not move a state or local function to Washington;… -
✓ Passes · Due process and takings
No person is deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process under the Fifth Amendment, and no taking occurs. Park entrance fees and recreation passes are voluntary user fees for access to federal recreational lands, authorized in concept by 16 U.S.C. 6801 and 16 U.S.C. 6807, not a compelled seizure or physical appropriation. The order expressly requires implementation consistent with a…
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