The $7 Disabled Veteran Recreation Card — Five Privileges in One
A resident veteran with a service-connected rating of 50% or more — or rated individually unemployable — buys the Resident Disabled Veteran Recreation Card for $7 a year. The card carries fishing, small game hunting, vehicle admission to state parks, admission to Heritage Hill, and the state trail pass, all inside the one $7 price.
Verified August 27, 2026
What this benefit is
A resident veteran with a service-connected rating of 50% or more — or rated individually unemployable — buys the Resident Disabled Veteran Recreation Card for $7 a year. The card carries fishing, small game hunting, vehicle admission to state parks, admission to Heritage Hill, and the state trail pass, all inside the one $7 price.
What it's worth: $7 a year for fishing, small game, park vehicle admission, Heritage Hill and the state trail pass
- The department lists the card as carrying fishing, small game hunting, vehicle admission to state parks, Heritage Hill admission and the state trail pass.
- The price is $7 annually, and the privileges ride inside the card rather than being purchased separately alongside it.
- Either eligibility route works: a service-connected rating of 50% or more, or a finding of individual unemployability.
- The card is for residents. The department prices non-resident privileges separately and this card is not among them.
- What it saves depends on which of the five privileges you would otherwise have bought, so we do not publish a single figure.
Who is entitled to it
- Your service-connected rating is 50% or higher.
- The VA rates you individually unemployable.
- You are a resident of this state.
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How to claim it
- 1Establish the eligibility once through the department's special-privileges document submission, with the VA letter showing the 50%+ rating or the individual unemployability finding.
- 2Buy the card for $7 each year — fishing, small game, park vehicle admission, Heritage Hill and the trail pass all ride inside it rather than being purchased separately.
- 3Do not buy the state trail pass or a park vehicle sticker on top. They are already in the card, and that is the mistake this card invites.
- 4Carry proof of the qualifying status when using the card.
- Form
- Resident Disabled Veteran Recreation Card
- File with
- Department of Natural Resources licence sales, with VA documentation of the rating or unemployability finding
- Documents you will need
- va benefit summary letter
- Annual
- Claimed once a year.
Sources
- authority · published policyDepartment of Natural Resources — Veterans Privileges
Why only one source type: The department's own veterans privileges page states the card, its $7 price and both eligibility routes; the legislature's statute server refuses connections.
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