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Fact sheet · Southeast

Congaree National Park

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

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States on the system list
South Carolina
Guide region
Southeast. Editorial grouping of the state that contains the centroid, or the first listed state when the point is offshore.
Anniversary-table date
October 18, 1976

Table note: redesignated from a National Monument 2003

Gross area acres
26,692.60

NPS fee acres: 26,600.96. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
33.7941, -80.7635

Containing shoreline polygon: South Carolina. Not an entrance.

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

Highest mean: March. Lowest mean: January. Mean annual total across complete years: 192,782 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

January: 10,755 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 13,221 mean recreation visitsMarch: 23,273 mean recreation visitsApril: 18,650 mean recreation visitsMay: 23,186 mean recreation visitsJune: 16,088 mean recreation visitsJuly: 13,847 mean recreation visitsAugust: 12,590 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 12,970 mean recreation visitsOctober: 17,302 mean recreation visitsNovember: 16,770 mean recreation visitsDecember: 14,128 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
January10,7556,85015,37410
February13,2216,55617,86510
March23,27310,79033,99210
April18,650033,23810
May23,18614033,95710
June16,0884,27824,87710
July13,8478,22922,63310
August12,5909,55420,22310
September12,9705,67521,25210
October17,3028,87026,08710
November16,7709,69124,09910
December14,1288,46820,31210

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.