Washington residents looking to take advantage of the warmer, sunnier days will have plenty of opportunities to get outdoors this month.
Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission has added Juneteenth (June 19) to its schedule of Discover Pass free days this month, making a total of four free access days in June where residents will not have to display a Discover Pass for day-use parking at Washington state parks.
Juneteenth is meant to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States in 1865, marking the date when the Emancipation Proclamation was read aloud to the enslaved people of Galveston, Texas. Despite the fact that President Abraham Lincoln signed the
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