Reviewed guide · U.S. Pacific islands

National Park of American Samoa

Unit code NPSA. Figures retrieved 2026-11-06. Official alerts, fees, and closures are not copied here.

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States on the system list: American Samoa

Guide region: U.S. Pacific islands. Editorial grouping of the state that contains the centroid, or the first listed state when the point is offshore.

Anniversary-table date: October 31, 1988

Gross area acres: 8,256.67

NPS fee acres: 0.00. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid: -14.2488, -169.4488

Containing shoreline polygon: not inside a 1:110,000,000 state polygon. Not an entrance.

Recreation-visit record: Highest monthly mean is outside June–August

Highest mean: April. Lowest mean: June. Mean annual total across complete years: 28,015 (10 complete years).

The acreage report lists 0.00 NPS fee acres for this unit. Gross area acres are still reported. This page does not describe the legal arrangement behind that zero.

A separate preserve row exists in the same acreage report (MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE). It is not added to the national park figures on this page.

The monthly record

Mean of reported recreation visits by calendar month, 2016–2025. Gold is the lowest mean and rust is the highest. A missing bar was not reported. This is a historic average, not a live crowd count.

Monthly recreation-visit record
Month	Mean	Lowest year	Highest year	Years in the mean
January	1,836	102	4,788	10
February	2,054	238	6,056	10
March	2,431	60	7,152	10
April	3,408	0	9,866	10
May	2,009	0	7,772	10
June	1,339	120	5,180	10
July	2,451	120	9,078	10
August	1,732	59	4,650	10
September	2,761	92	7,104	10
October	3,195	0	11,494	10
November	3,103	116	8,456	10
December	1,695	148	4,794	10

How to use this guide

The National Park of American Samoa is the national park on the system list in American Samoa. The atlas gives it a separate inset because it does not sit on the North American mainland, and because the 1:110,000,000 shoreline set does not draw these islands. The inset uses a coarser 1:50,000,000 shoreline. The boundary centroid can fall in the water between islands. That is a geometry outcome, not a landing point.

The acreage report lists 0.00 NPS fee acres and a separate gross area. This page repeats those two columns and does not invent the land arrangement behind the zero. Flights, village protocols, and sea conditions are on the park’s directions and conditions pages. One of the standard directions addresses we checked did not respond; use the park home if a specific link is missing.

Official pages

These links were checked when the site was built. A working link is not a live feed. If a standard address did not respond, it is omitted.

Nearest other national parks

Distances are great-circle miles between boundary centroids. They are not road distances or travel times.

Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park — about 2,512 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.
Haleakalā National Park — about 2,578 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.
Channel Islands National Park — about 4,669 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.