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Fact sheet · Pacific

Mount Rainier National Park

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

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States on the system list
Washington
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
March 2, 1899
Gross area acres
236,381.64

NPS fee acres: 236,337.27. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
46.8547, -121.7064

Containing shoreline polygon: Washington. 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: 1,517,575 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

January: 24,121 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 16,736 mean recreation visitsMarch: 26,118 mean recreation visitsApril: 30,160 mean recreation visitsMay: 83,716 mean recreation visitsJune: 204,578 mean recreation visitsJuly: 372,558 mean recreation visitsAugust: 367,792 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 213,787 mean recreation visitsOctober: 112,286 mean recreation visitsNovember: 39,830 mean recreation visitsDecember: 25,892 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
January24,12112,16442,16110
February16,7366,78326,65510
March26,11819,10532,10110
April30,1609850,39510
May83,7164,900107,12210
June204,578105,540251,06610
July372,558280,106449,44610
August367,792313,699430,92210
September213,787168,751295,70110
October112,28674,355160,71810
November39,83020,73586,31010
December25,89214,77342,19810

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.