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Fact sheet · Pacific

Channel Islands National Park

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

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States on the system list
California
Guide region
Pacific. Editorial grouping of the state that contains the centroid, or the first listed state when the point is offshore.
Anniversary-table date
April 26, 1938

Table note: incorporated Channel Islands National Monument 1980

Gross area acres
249,561.00

NPS fee acres: 69,425.66. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
34.0185, -119.7062

Containing shoreline polygon: not inside a 1:110,000,000 state polygon. Not an entrance.

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

Highest mean: July. Lowest mean: January. Mean annual total across complete years: 315,267 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

January: 14,115 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 18,996 mean recreation visitsMarch: 24,677 mean recreation visitsApril: 26,170 mean recreation visitsMay: 27,556 mean recreation visitsJune: 34,222 mean recreation visitsJuly: 39,708 mean recreation visitsAugust: 34,581 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 29,933 mean recreation visitsOctober: 27,085 mean recreation visitsNovember: 22,267 mean recreation visitsDecember: 15,958 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
January14,1151,68418,95510
February18,99613,04624,87810
March24,67713,40834,95110
April26,17036539,21810
May27,5562,51439,07010
June34,22213,74044,91510
July39,70815,32356,19410
August34,58118,46249,79310
September29,93318,14739,45010
October27,08510,72436,69110
November22,26712,47130,33010
December15,9583,01122,06210

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.

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Nearest other national parks

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