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Fact sheet · Pacific

Crater Lake National Park

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

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States on the system list
Oregon
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
May 22, 1902
Gross area acres
183,224.05

NPS fee acres: 183,223.77. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
42.9451, -122.1343

Containing shoreline polygon: Oregon. 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: 643,593 (10 complete years).

A separate preserve row exists in the same acreage report (CRATERS OF THE MOON NPRES). It is not added to the national park figures on this page.

The monthly record

January: 4,966 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 5,588 mean recreation visitsMarch: 9,314 mean recreation visitsApril: 15,609 mean recreation visitsMay: 35,792 mean recreation visitsJune: 89,382 mean recreation visitsJuly: 181,102 mean recreation visitsAugust: 147,874 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 88,918 mean recreation visitsOctober: 42,808 mean recreation visitsNovember: 13,532 mean recreation visitsDecember: 8,708 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
January4,9661,9359,22010
February5,5881,4029,21310
March9,3144,80015,31210
April15,60968625,68010
May35,79281456,74610
June89,38254,566136,56710
July181,102139,513209,67810
August147,87493,343222,36810
September88,91859,093131,76010
October42,80811,42261,61310
November13,5326,38021,30910
December8,7084,64026,10010

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.