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Fact sheet · Pacific

Kings Canyon National Park

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

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States on the system list
California
Guide region
Pacific. Editorial grouping of the state that contains the centroid, or the first listed state when the point is offshore.
Anniversary-table date
October 1, 1890

Table note: incorporated General Grant National Park in 1940

Gross area acres
461,901.37

NPS fee acres: 461,846.82. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
36.8749, -118.5939

Containing shoreline polygon: California. 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: 637,277 (10 complete years).

Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park share the National Park Service website nps.gov/seki. Acreage and recreation visits on this page use the separate unit code KICA.

The monthly record

January: 19,662 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 14,767 mean recreation visitsMarch: 16,834 mean recreation visitsApril: 31,915 mean recreation visitsMay: 68,553 mean recreation visitsJune: 97,640 mean recreation visitsJuly: 117,436 mean recreation visitsAugust: 99,404 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 74,635 mean recreation visitsOctober: 51,004 mean recreation visitsNovember: 27,445 mean recreation visitsDecember: 17,983 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
January19,66214,36327,70110
February14,7679,22721,65310
March16,8341,48122,82310
April31,915042,13310
May68,553098,42010
June97,64060,989126,31810
July117,436101,797135,07310
August99,40477,706119,27610
September74,63523,59588,88610
October51,00410,99168,18610
November27,44518,22235,95510
December17,9838,23929,79710

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

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Nearest other national parks

Distances are great-circle miles between boundary centroids. They are not road distances or travel times.