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Fact sheet · Alaska

Kobuk Valley National Park

Unit code KOVA. 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 Park by ANILCA 1980

Gross area acres
1,750,716.16

NPS fee acres: 1,714,753.37. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
67.3962, -159.0625

Containing shoreline polygon: Alaska. Not an entrance.

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

Highest mean: October. Lowest mean: February. Mean annual total across complete years: 14,399 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

January: 1,058 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 665 mean recreation visitsMarch: 713 mean recreation visitsApril: 708 mean recreation visitsMay: 706 mean recreation visitsJune: 1,254 mean recreation visitsJuly: 1,591 mean recreation visitsAugust: 1,553 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 1,527 mean recreation visitsOctober: 1,772 mean recreation visitsNovember: 1,428 mean recreation visitsDecember: 1,424 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
January1,058771,40010
February6658080010
March71322890010
April7081681,00610
May7061371,03410
June1,2544901,77710
July1,5916122,88710
August1,5536202,15910
September1,5278491,77910
October1,7722702,04910
November1,428991,65210
December1,424461,71210

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.