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150 years from now, we won’t be alive, nor will our children – but our grandchildren will be, and we can send them to Yellowstone National Park. In a wonderfully unique offer, you can make a $1,500 donation whose perk (far better than a tote bag) is an Inheritance Pass that can be used in the year 2172.
The price is a nod to the park celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. The Inheritance pass works for the year when Yellowstone will be celebrating its 300th and, as Yellowstone’s website jokes, it’s good for “most likely one solar-powered flying car’s worth of your future loved ones.’
Money raised by these forward-thinking passes will go to fund projects like improving some of Yellowstone’s 900 trails, installing bear-proof storage boxes at campsites and conserving native fish populations (spoiler alert: invasive lake trout are the antagonists) administered by Yellowstone Forever, the park’s official nonprofit partner.
The brainchild of Havas Chicago advertising agency, the posthumous pass helps increase the chances that there will continue to be wolves, bison, cougar and wolverine sightings in the impacted park.
And although it’s not as dramatic as thinking about the pass’s future as-yet-unconceived user, you’ll be happy to hear you also get a pass that lasts for a year from your first use in 2022. The tax-deductible pass comes in a beautiful green and gold booklet with embossed bison and flora, perfect for birthday or holiday giving. If you buy the Inheritance Pass before July, you’ll receive it in August. After that point, it will be shipped in January 2023.