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Reviewed guide · Pacific

Olympic National Park

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

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A meadow full of wildflowers, with snowy mountain ridges beyond.
Public-domain National Park Service photograph. Credit: NPS photo. Asset record.
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, 1909

Table note: incorporated Mount Olympus National Monument

Gross area acres
923,045.80

NPS fee acres: 913,410.93. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
47.7867, -123.5343

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: 3,104,251 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

January: 87,504 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 91,051 mean recreation visitsMarch: 125,179 mean recreation visitsApril: 140,616 mean recreation visitsMay: 260,867 mean recreation visitsJune: 361,415 mean recreation visitsJuly: 510,072 mean recreation visitsAugust: 681,950 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 400,192 mean recreation visitsOctober: 219,242 mean recreation visitsNovember: 140,380 mean recreation visitsDecember: 85,782 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
January87,50465,553124,05010
February91,05173,756117,86610
March125,179112,250166,80110
April140,61640,297216,51210
May260,86766,013436,91110
June361,415186,034500,19110
July510,072432,022569,47910
August681,950518,417813,26710
September400,192322,881537,34210
October219,242114,112339,24310
November140,38090,207235,13710
December85,78263,753119,73710

How to use this guide

Olympic National Park is listed in Washington. People talk about it as several landscapes in one park. This page does not repeat that slogan as a measured fact, because a static guide should not assign you a coast, a forest, or a mountain as if they were equally available on the day you arrive. The directions page is how you find out which approach you are actually using.

The centroid is one point for a large, complicated boundary. Straight-line miles to other Washington parks are a way to see neighbors on the map. They are not drive times along the peninsula. The visitation chart is the historic entry record, and the park’s safety page did not respond at the standard address we checked, so start from the park home for safety notes.

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.