Fact sheet · Alaska

Katmai National Park

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

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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: September 24, 1918

Table note: originally a National Monument, redesignated by ANILCA 1980

Gross area acres: 3,674,529.33

NPS fee acres: 3,611,536.50. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid: 59.0779, -155.3918

Containing shoreline polygon: Alaska. Not an entrance.

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

Highest mean: July. Lowest mean: February. Mean annual total across complete years: 41,228 (10 complete years).

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

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	46	0	100	10
February	44	0	100	10
March	46	0	100	10
April	46	0	100	10
May	122	21	313	10
June	5,396	3,403	9,690	10
July	16,496	9,073	37,318	10
August	11,878	7,547	23,772	10
September	6,879	4,223	13,908	10
October	182	20	369	10
November	46	0	100	10
December	47	0	100	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.

Lake Clark National Park — about 121 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.
Kenai Fjords National Park — about 188 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.
Denali National Park — about 339 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.