Fact sheet · Alaska

Kenai Fjords National Park

Unit code KEFJ. 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: December 1, 1978

Table note: redesignated from a National Monument by ANILCA 1980

Gross area acres: 669,650.05

NPS fee acres: 603,129.86. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid: 59.8092, -150.2466

Containing shoreline polygon: Alaska. Not an entrance.

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

Highest mean: July. Lowest mean: November. Mean annual total across complete years: 347,830 (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	34	5	96	10
February	44	18	98	10
March	54	17	126	10
April	81	2	429	10
May	25,640	4,161	36,474	10
June	83,636	21,121	103,155	10
July	108,570	31,809	132,250	10
August	88,610	32,689	114,426	10
September	36,397	21,158	50,041	10
October	4,715	3,149	7,141	10
November	14	1	39	10
December	34	7	64	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 147 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.
Katmai National Park — about 188 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.
Denali National Park — about 275 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.