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Reviewed guide · Southwest

Grand Canyon National Park

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

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Photograph of the sunrise from Cape Royal, North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park. Low light illuminates horizontal layers of rock in shades of red and white.
Public-domain National Park Service photograph. Credit: NPS Photo by Michael Quinn. 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
February 26, 1919

Table note: incorporated 1908 Grand Canyon National Monument

Gross area acres
1,201,647.03

NPS fee acres: 1,180,650.85. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
36.3099, -112.2997

Containing shoreline polygon: Arizona. 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: 5,082,435 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

January: 198,217 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 208,887 mean recreation visitsMarch: 402,616 mean recreation visitsApril: 442,310 mean recreation visitsMay: 502,656 mean recreation visitsJune: 548,350 mean recreation visitsJuly: 623,864 mean recreation visitsAugust: 562,386 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 474,073 mean recreation visitsOctober: 477,834 mean recreation visitsNovember: 334,843 mean recreation visitsDecember: 306,399 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
January198,217134,361257,36610
February208,887151,395265,94910
March402,616276,002504,29510
April442,3100590,00610
May502,65643,397637,70310
June548,350232,267726,91610
July623,864350,003839,08610
August562,386303,900745,61310
September474,073249,010615,78310
October477,834399,670555,09410
November334,843275,764408,79410
December306,399245,830369,04110

How to use this guide

Grand Canyon National Park is listed in Arizona. The boundary centroid is a single point for a park that people enter from widely separated roads. Start with the official directions page rather than with the dot. A page the park publishes about Desert View Drive, when it responds, is a road page, not a measure of how long the drive takes on a given morning.

Fees, permits, and corridor rules change often enough that copying them onto a static page would make them false. The links are the planning tools. The chart is the historic shape of recreation visits, including years when travel patterns broke, and it is not a count of people on the rim this week.

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.