Northern Territory Government
Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security Parks Pass required from today
3 April 2023
From today, all interstate and international visitors will need to purchase a Parks Pass to visit most Territory parks and reserves. Territorians are exempt from requiring a Parks Pass.
The Parks Pass will help protect, modernise and improve our parks and reserves by providing valuable information about visitation and through the generation of new revenue for their care, management and development.
The NT Government manages 85 parks, reserves and protected areas across the Northern Territory with 33 of these areas formally joint managed with Aboriginal Traditional Owners.
A percentage of fees on jointly managed parks will be paid to governing land councils on behalf of Traditional Owners.
Urban parks are not included in the Parks Pass so visitors can still walk, run and picnic at Casuarina Coastal Reserve and Alice Springs Telegraph Station.
