The Cost of Going Cashless at U.S. National Parks As Many Switch to Plastic-Only

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5. I can see a pile of problems...

Every park is unique and some are more difficult to monitor in these situations. Take the larger "drive-through" parks like Yellowstone. So many people go through that just getting in the gate takes over an hour many days in summer, I can just imagine the pile up at vending machines for cash conversion. Stocking and maintaining these things will add another set of tasks to those already covered by staff... the ones in uniforms with the badges because they are the ones cleared to handle cash and passes.

It was a fiasco when they went to the newer POS registers in the visitor centers where many passes are sold and at the gates. I'm so glad I'm not there to have to deal with this.