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Fact sheet · Rocky Mountain

Great Basin National Park

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

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States on the system list
Nevada
Guide region
Rocky Mountain. Editorial grouping of the state that contains the centroid, or the first listed state when the point is offshore.
Anniversary-table date
January 24, 1922

Table note: incorporated Lehman Caves National Monument in 1986

Gross area acres
77,180.00

NPS fee acres: 77,180.00. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
38.9272, -114.2443

Containing shoreline polygon: Nevada. Not an entrance.

Recreation-visit record
Highest monthly mean is in June, July, or August

Highest mean: July. Lowest mean: December. Mean annual total across complete years: 146,155 (10 complete years).

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

The monthly record

January: 1,748 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 1,950 mean recreation visitsMarch: 4,571 mean recreation visitsApril: 8,122 mean recreation visitsMay: 14,722 mean recreation visitsJune: 23,565 mean recreation visitsJuly: 26,356 mean recreation visitsAugust: 20,903 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 25,239 mean recreation visitsOctober: 14,880 mean recreation visitsNovember: 2,403 mean recreation visitsDecember: 1,697 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
January1,7486894,02310
February1,9501,0603,06110
March4,5711,71915,70510
April8,12281616,67110
May14,7224,58727,67810
June23,56516,22230,98210
July26,35618,64836,94010
August20,90317,74424,67410
September25,23920,82234,03210
October14,88011,16220,68410
November2,4031,3753,33010
December1,6979993,69310

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.