Fact sheet · Rocky Mountain

Arches National Park

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

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States on the system list: Utah

Guide region: Rocky Mountain. Editorial grouping of the state that contains the centroid, or the first listed state when the point is offshore.

Anniversary-table date: April 12, 1929

Table note: redesignated from a National Monument 1978

Gross area acres: 76,678.98

NPS fee acres: 76,545.95. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid: 38.7079, -109.5955

Containing shoreline polygon: Utah. Not an entrance.

Recreation-visit record: Highest monthly mean is in June, July, or August

Highest mean: June. Lowest mean: January. Mean annual total across complete years: 1,541,392 (10 complete years).

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	30,436	20,311	48,725	10
February	43,430	30,239	53,986	10
March	131,756	81,623	152,554	10
April	145,529	0	193,914	10
May	181,201	13,832	225,789	10
June	195,548	163,699	238,499	10
July	186,222	156,052	211,928	10
August	164,792	142,790	188,340	10
September	182,359	142,337	207,857	10
October	151,141	135,716	177,864	10
November	82,202	69,404	103,916	10
December	46,777	33,290	64,042	10

How to use this fact sheet

This is a fact sheet. Every figure is tied to the sources under it. It is not a trail guide, a fee table, or a conditions report.

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.

Canyonlands National Park — about 34 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.
Capitol Reef National Park — about 92 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park — about 100 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.