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Fact sheet · Southwest

Big Bend National Park

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

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States on the system list
Texas
Guide region
Southwest. Editorial grouping of the state that contains the centroid, or the first listed state when the point is offshore.
Anniversary-table date
June 20, 1935
Gross area acres
801,162.34

NPS fee acres: 775,273.38. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
29.3338, -103.1941

Containing shoreline polygon: Texas. Not an entrance.

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

Highest mean: March. Lowest mean: August. Mean annual total across complete years: 486,041 (10 complete years).

A separate preserve row exists in the same acreage report (BIG CYPRESS ADDITION; BIG CYPRESS N PRESERVE; BIG THICKET N PRESERVE). It is not added to the national park figures on this page.

The monthly record

January: 41,025 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 46,224 mean recreation visitsMarch: 81,623 mean recreation visitsApril: 51,543 mean recreation visitsMay: 36,429 mean recreation visitsJune: 23,362 mean recreation visitsJuly: 17,915 mean recreation visitsAugust: 16,097 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 23,055 mean recreation visitsOctober: 42,734 mean recreation visitsNovember: 54,546 mean recreation visitsDecember: 51,488 mean recreation visitsJFMAMJJASOND
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
MonthMeanLowest yearHighest yearYears in the mean
January41,02529,31850,29810
February46,22441,67052,22710
March81,62354,642106,91110
April51,543077,54110
May36,429053,06710
June23,36218,63033,53310
July17,915027,32110
August16,09710,86020,20710
September23,05518,40628,98510
October42,73426,80651,23110
November54,54645,44365,27310
December51,48832,94766,20110

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.