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N.D. (NewsDakota.com) The North Dakota Parks and Recreation Department in association with the State Library announced the expansion of the Library Loan Program, allowing library patrons to “check out” a pass providing entrance to any State Park, effectively waiving the daily pass fee.

N.D. Parks & Recreation Director Mark Zimmerman says “There is so much to see and do at the state parks and the ‘park pass’ makes it easier for everyone to get out and visit some of North Dakota’s best places.”

Valley City Barnes County Public Library Director Steve Hammel says the library has received the passes and they are ready for distribution to library patron in the area.

Nearly 90 North Dakota public libraries will have the park pass available for loan. The pass is good for seven days. Any additional charges, such as camping and rentals, are not included in the pass and are the responsibility of the pass holder.

There is a limit of one pass per household and they can only be checked out by cardholders 18 and older and in good standing with the library. The passes can be renewed after seven days if there is no one on a waiting list to use the pass. To check out a pass a library card must be presented. After seven days passes are to be returned to the library circulation desk from where it was borrowed.

(Above photo from left to right: FALSP Manager Dan Schelske, NDPRD mascot Roscoe the Raccoon, CDLN’s Christine Kujawa and the State Library’s Kristin Byram announced the program’s expansion in Bismarck on October 16.)