Fact sheet · Southwest

Guadalupe Mountains National Park

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

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States on the system list: Texas

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: October 15, 1966

Gross area acres: 86,367.10

NPS fee acres: 86,367.10. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid: 31.9069, -104.9008

Containing shoreline polygon: Texas. Not an entrance.

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

Highest mean: March. Lowest mean: January. Mean annual total across complete years: 204,271 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

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
Month	Mean	Lowest year	Highest year	Years in the mean
January	10,423	1,049	14,151	10
February	15,155	9,462	21,610	10
March	31,025	12,275	51,285	10
April	21,579	2,321	32,284	10
May	17,414	0	25,204	10
June	12,579	1,588	16,341	10
July	12,532	8,285	16,755	10
August	10,734	6,652	15,734	10
September	12,510	9,758	15,125	10
October	21,670	17,288	25,654	10
November	20,164	15,161	25,402	10
December	18,485	6,933	26,731	10

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.

Carlsbad Caverns National Park — about 23 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.
White Sands National Park — about 102 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.
Big Bend National Park — about 205 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.