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Reviewed guide · Southeast

Mammoth Cave National Park

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

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A gray concrete walkway leads to two single story brick buildings on the left and right.
Public-domain National Park Service photograph. Credit: NPS Photo. Asset record.
States on the system list
Kentucky
Guide region
Southeast. Editorial grouping of the state that contains the centroid, or the first listed state when the point is offshore.
Anniversary-table date
May 25, 1926
Gross area acres
72,041.73

NPS fee acres: 52,007.62. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
37.1886, -86.1203

Containing shoreline polygon: Kentucky. 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: 579,070 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

January: 12,273 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 15,457 mean recreation visitsMarch: 52,478 mean recreation visitsApril: 54,465 mean recreation visitsMay: 53,032 mean recreation visitsJune: 76,684 mean recreation visitsJuly: 97,606 mean recreation visitsAugust: 67,098 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 49,298 mean recreation visitsOctober: 51,128 mean recreation visitsNovember: 28,094 mean recreation visitsDecember: 21,458 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
January12,2733,65118,19010
February15,4579,54127,51610
March52,47825,86085,60810
April54,4658,44171,38710
May53,03212,20868,43010
June76,68432,44896,79310
July97,60640,736119,42010
August67,09838,03086,94510
September49,29830,16767,71210
October51,12812,64675,73210
November28,09420,58840,75810
December21,4587,67345,54210

How to use this guide

Mammoth Cave National Park is listed in Kentucky. The name tells you the park is organized around a cave. It does not tell you which tour is offered, how long it lasts, or whether a route is physically available. Those facts change with staffing, water, and the park’s own rules, so they stay on the official pages.

The chart is still useful: it shows when reported recreation visits have clustered. A busy month in the record is not a sold-out tour, and a quiet month is not an open one. If you need a map of passages, use the park’s map page rather than anything drawn here. This atlas marks the boundary centroid only.

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.