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Chiricahua National Park

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

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Evergreen forest, mountains in background
Public-domain National Park Service photograph. Credit: National Park Service. Asset record.
States on the system list
Arizona
Guide region
Southwest. Editorial grouping of the state that contains the centroid, or the first listed state when the point is offshore.
Anniversary-table date
No line under this national park name

Related line in the same table: Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona

Gross area acres
12,024.73

NPS fee acres: 12,022.38. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
32.0158, -109.3475

Containing shoreline polygon: Arizona. Not an entrance.

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

Highest mean: March. Lowest mean: August. Mean annual total across complete years: 59,960 (10 complete years).

The September 30, 2026 acreage report still titles the unit CHIRICAHUA NM. The October 26, 2026 National Park System list places Chiricahua under national parks. The boundary service retrieved the same day still typed the unit as a national monument.

The monthly record

January: 4,703 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 6,622 mean recreation visitsMarch: 10,922 mean recreation visitsApril: 7,598 mean recreation visitsMay: 4,945 mean recreation visitsJune: 2,694 mean recreation visitsJuly: 2,548 mean recreation visitsAugust: 2,323 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 3,133 mean recreation visitsOctober: 4,928 mean recreation visitsNovember: 4,898 mean recreation visitsDecember: 4,646 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
January4,7032,0835,64610
February6,6225,6468,27210
March10,9225,99513,45810
April7,59874710,55210
May4,9451,9996,72210
June2,6942,3033,14310
July2,5482,3752,76310
August2,3231,8312,62410
September3,1332,5743,51910
October4,9283,9315,48410
November4,8984,1695,48410
December4,6462,0837,07810

How to use this guide

Chiricahua is the newest name on the national park list, and the records do not all use that name yet. The National Park System page updated October 26, 2026, places Chiricahua National Park in Arizona. The park’s own FAQ says Congress redesignated the entire unit through H.R. 6380, signed into law on September 30, 2026. The acreage workbook dated the same day as that signature, and the boundary service retrieved for this site, still title the unit as a national monument.

Use the unit, not the lag in the title. The centroid is the monument-era boundary centroid, which the FAQ treats as the whole redesignated unit. It is not a trailhead among the rock spires. Recreation visits under the unit code include the years before the national park name. They are still the Park Service’s monthly record for this place, not a forecast of how busy a pinnacle will be.

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.