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Fact sheet · Pacific

North Cascades National Park

Unit code NOCA. 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
October 2, 1968
Gross area acres
504,780.94

NPS fee acres: 504,654.18. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
48.8284, -121.3501

Containing shoreline polygon: Washington. Not an entrance.

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

Highest mean: August. Lowest mean: December. Mean annual total across complete years: 30,992 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

January: 47 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 42 mean recreation visitsMarch: 49 mean recreation visitsApril: 248 mean recreation visitsMay: 974 mean recreation visitsJune: 2,891 mean recreation visitsJuly: 9,127 mean recreation visitsAugust: 9,558 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 6,515 mean recreation visitsOctober: 1,450 mean recreation visitsNovember: 68 mean recreation visitsDecember: 21 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
January47229810
February42028810
March49919510
April24801,12910
May97401,64610
June2,8911,3244,52010
July9,1275,49316,82810
August9,5581,56116,18110
September6,5152,3379,84210
October1,4503732,77610
November681812610
December2108110

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.