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Reviewed guide · Alaska

Denali National Park

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

Show on the atlas
view from high above a winding road as it passes through a green, tree-less landscape; mountains in the distance
Public-domain National Park Service photograph. Credit: NPS Photo / Tim Rains. Asset record.
States on the system list
Alaska
Guide region
Alaska. Editorial grouping of the state that contains the centroid, or the first listed state when the point is offshore.
Anniversary-table date
February 26, 1917

Table note: incorporated Mount McKinley National Park and Denali National Monument by ANILCA in 1980

Gross area acres
4,740,911.16

NPS fee acres: 4,732,657.96. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
63.7031, -152.0061

Containing shoreline polygon: Alaska. 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: 464,622 (10 complete years).

A separate preserve row exists in the same acreage report (DENALI N PRESERVE). It is not added to the national park figures on this page.

The monthly record

January: 1,015 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 2,093 mean recreation visitsMarch: 4,312 mean recreation visitsApril: 4,456 mean recreation visitsMay: 38,119 mean recreation visitsJune: 111,790 mean recreation visitsJuly: 126,766 mean recreation visitsAugust: 121,337 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 48,908 mean recreation visitsOctober: 2,801 mean recreation visitsNovember: 1,432 mean recreation visitsDecember: 1,592 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
January1,01582,26510
February2,093223,82810
March4,3123359,65110
April4,45658,08010
May38,11910562,49710
June111,79010,031158,59010
July126,76613,802182,40010
August121,33714,482155,20110
September48,90810,52369,90710
October2,80136,40510
November1,43252,43710
December1,59243,17610

How to use this guide

Denali is an Alaska park on the system list, and the map on this site draws Alaska in its own inset because a single scale would shrink it into a corner of the continent. A straight-line mileage from Denali’s boundary centroid to a park in the lower 48 is a geographic comparison. It is not a drive, a flight, or a bus seat on the park road.

The acreage figure is the national park row. Where the same workbook has a separate preserve row, that row is not folded in. Winter and summer are different countries in the visitation record; the chart is the place to see that, and the park’s conditions page is the place to learn whether a road or a service is actually running.

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.