Fact sheet · Rocky Mountain

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park

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

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States on the system list: Colorado

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: March 2, 1933

Table note: redesignated from a National Monument 1999

Gross area acres: 30,779.83

NPS fee acres: 29,861.55. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid: 38.5794, -107.7437

Containing shoreline polygon: Colorado. Not an entrance.

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

Highest mean: July. Lowest mean: December. Mean annual total across complete years: 317,774 (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	8,004	4,921	15,001	10
February	6,309	3,361	9,112	10
March	8,058	2,850	12,180	10
April	13,962	9,871	25,077	10
May	37,993	25,976	75,198	10
June	46,227	27,583	75,289	10
July	48,440	23,218	61,521	10
August	47,793	15,962	80,046	10
September	46,385	37,119	56,683	10
October	31,834	19,113	54,766	10
November	16,524	8,955	23,249	10
December	6,246	3,042	15,157	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.

Mesa Verde National Park — about 99 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.
Arches National Park — about 100 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.
Canyonlands National Park — about 118 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.