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Fact sheet · Alaska

Lake Clark National Park

Unit code LACL. 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: originally a National Monument; redesignated by ANILCA 1980

Gross area acres
2,619,816.49

NPS fee acres: 2,481,440.51. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
60.7114, -154.1318

Containing shoreline polygon: Alaska. Not an entrance.

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

Highest mean: July. Lowest mean: January. Mean annual total across complete years: 17,192 (10 complete years).

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

The monthly record

January: 46 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 79 mean recreation visitsMarch: 120 mean recreation visitsApril: 89 mean recreation visitsMay: 423 mean recreation visitsJune: 3,739 mean recreation visitsJuly: 5,286 mean recreation visitsAugust: 5,053 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 2,060 mean recreation visitsOctober: 149 mean recreation visitsNovember: 88 mean recreation visitsDecember: 58 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
January46017110
February79023310
March120034810
April89033610
May423678810
June3,7392545,12510
July5,2861,4827,08710
August5,0531,4186,76410
September2,0609023,14810
October149030110
November88025810
December58024510

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.