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Fact sheet · Pacific

Death Valley National Park

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

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States on the system list
California, Nevada
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
February 11, 1933

Table note: incorporated Death Valley National Monument

Gross area acres
3,408,374.95

NPS fee acres: 3,354,777.59. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
36.5668, -117.1388

Containing shoreline polygon: California. Not an entrance.

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

Highest mean: March. Lowest mean: June. Mean annual total across complete years: 1,296,640 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

January: 89,317 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 113,434 mean recreation visitsMarch: 157,779 mean recreation visitsApril: 125,953 mean recreation visitsMay: 107,336 mean recreation visitsJune: 76,840 mean recreation visitsJuly: 97,987 mean recreation visitsAugust: 105,643 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 94,472 mean recreation visitsOctober: 104,704 mean recreation visitsNovember: 112,737 mean recreation visitsDecember: 110,439 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
January89,31766,867123,59310
February113,43478,586129,71110
March157,779108,119209,28210
April125,95318,361177,69610
May107,33619,994158,67010
June76,84029,404122,01310
July97,98742,566142,97210
August105,64339,387182,92910
September94,4720168,89410
October104,70441,089176,51810
November112,73791,122133,13010
December110,43986,755135,24810

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.