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Fact sheet · Rocky Mountain

Bryce Canyon National Park

Unit code BRCA. 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
June 8, 1923

Table note: redesignated Utah National Park in 1924; redesignated from Bryce Canyon National Monument in 1928

Gross area acres
35,835.08

NPS fee acres: 35,832.58. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
37.5708, -112.1856

Containing shoreline polygon: Utah. Not an entrance.

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

Highest mean: September. Lowest mean: January. Mean annual total across complete years: 2,306,180 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

January: 32,438 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 36,114 mean recreation visitsMarch: 87,890 mean recreation visitsApril: 176,221 mean recreation visitsMay: 285,048 mean recreation visitsJune: 341,353 mean recreation visitsJuly: 336,152 mean recreation visitsAugust: 309,821 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 345,454 mean recreation visitsOctober: 228,931 mean recreation visitsNovember: 76,347 mean recreation visitsDecember: 50,413 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
January32,43824,28539,68210
February36,11429,81345,01010
March87,89045,132106,96110
April176,2213,223236,81210
May285,04869,579340,35110
June341,353195,463409,46710
July336,152227,563430,02010
August309,821191,404403,96410
September345,454265,048411,45610
October228,931180,925284,76610
November76,34765,74887,26310
December50,41338,52565,37910

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

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Nearest other national parks

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