Fact sheet · Rocky Mountain

Canyonlands National Park

Unit code CANY. 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: September 12, 1964

Gross area acres: 337,597.83

NPS fee acres: 337,269.40. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid: 38.2721, -109.8832

Containing shoreline polygon: Utah. Not an entrance.

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

Highest mean: May. Lowest mean: January. Mean annual total across complete years: 759,146 (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	9,576	5,050	18,837	10
February	15,598	9,705	20,164	10
March	64,414	14,490	87,001	10
April	89,191	0	116,971	10
May	107,365	6,304	134,778	10
June	90,621	63,685	111,544	10
July	71,559	64,672	81,922	10
August	67,476	59,334	78,510	10
September	94,767	74,444	105,723	10
October	91,470	81,353	107,063	10
November	39,349	29,856	52,831	10
December	17,761	11,920	24,112	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.

Arches National Park — about 34 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.
Capitol Reef National Park — about 69 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.
Mesa Verde National Park — about 105 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.