As we’ve previously reported, starting Friday it’s going to cost you to park at a state park. What you might not know is that if you buy the “Discover Pass” from the state online or from a retailer, your $30 annual pass will be slapped with a $5 convenience fee. Happily, there are ways of avoiding the latter fee.First, you can buy the pass when renewing your license plate tabs. Doing so will only cost $30. Second, you can buy the pass directly from a state park ranger. Likewise, $30. Alternatively, you could volunteer 24 hours of your time at the state parks and earn a complimentary pass that way. Or, if you’re going camping, the fees associated with that will include parking.But if you go through a retailer, like REI for example, or if you buy the pass from the state’s own website, you’re going to get Ticketmastered.As it happens, not everyone is pleased with this. State Senator Kevin Ranker (D-San Juan Island), who championed the recent passage of the “Discover Pass,” says the state agencies administering the pass (Fish and Wildlife and the Department of Natural Resources) never made clear their intention to tack on the $5 fee. “If back in February I had been told that the state was going to pass these [processing] fees along, I would have been saying [that the Discover Pass costs] $35 from the beginning. The issue isn’t that $35 is totally out of line. It’s that we sold this as a $30 annual fee.” Bryan Flint, communications director for the Department of Natural Resources, says Ranker has it wrongFollow The Daily Weekly on Facebook and Twitter.