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Fact sheet · Rocky Mountain

Mesa Verde National Park

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

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States on the system list
Colorado
Guide region
Rocky Mountain. Editorial grouping of the state that contains the centroid, or the first listed state when the point is offshore.
Anniversary-table date
June 29, 1906
Gross area acres
52,485.17

NPS fee acres: 52,252.46. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
37.2535, -108.4556

Containing shoreline polygon: Colorado. 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: 510,107 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

January: 5,780 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 6,361 mean recreation visitsMarch: 16,866 mean recreation visitsApril: 26,947 mean recreation visitsMay: 53,186 mean recreation visitsJune: 94,166 mean recreation visitsJuly: 95,534 mean recreation visitsAugust: 76,662 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 64,574 mean recreation visitsOctober: 47,698 mean recreation visitsNovember: 13,604 mean recreation visitsDecember: 8,730 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
January5,780958,30910
February6,3613,4147,89910
March16,86610,19321,04810
April26,947034,56810
May53,1863,02964,62310
June94,16648,110111,13010
July95,53449,824119,91810
August76,66256,92396,47010
September64,57444,55777,03610
October47,69837,79455,35010
November13,60410,20116,85010
December8,7307,40811,89810

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.