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Fact sheet · Rocky Mountain

Capitol Reef National Park

Unit code CARE. 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
August 2, 1937

Table note: redesignated from a National Monument 1971

Gross area acres
241,904.50

NPS fee acres: 241,223.33. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
38.1706, -111.1427

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: 1,236,304 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

January: 15,212 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 19,560 mean recreation visitsMarch: 79,994 mean recreation visitsApril: 128,058 mean recreation visitsMay: 189,849 mean recreation visitsJune: 160,198 mean recreation visitsJuly: 127,806 mean recreation visitsAugust: 111,449 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 168,781 mean recreation visitsOctober: 151,635 mean recreation visitsNovember: 56,571 mean recreation visitsDecember: 27,190 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
January15,21210,54620,78610
February19,56012,36825,85910
March79,99445,804115,72810
April128,05813,014165,49810
May189,84990,903221,88910
June160,198132,427193,93510
July127,806107,562151,04210
August111,44993,792127,34110
September168,781130,243201,32610
October151,635119,114197,11510
November56,57138,62879,97410
December27,19016,97143,77210

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.