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Fact sheet · Southwest

Petrified Forest National Park

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

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States on the system list
Arizona
Guide region
Southwest. Editorial grouping of the state that contains the centroid, or the first listed state when the point is offshore.
Anniversary-table date
December 8, 1906

Table note: redesignated from a national monument in 1962

Gross area acres
221,390.21

NPS fee acres: 147,154.45. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
34.9311, -109.7727

Containing shoreline polygon: Arizona. Not an entrance.

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

Highest mean: June. Lowest mean: January. Mean annual total across complete years: 543,526 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

January: 22,732 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 22,809 mean recreation visitsMarch: 49,696 mean recreation visitsApril: 42,229 mean recreation visitsMay: 55,876 mean recreation visitsJune: 73,818 mean recreation visitsJuly: 67,953 mean recreation visitsAugust: 52,842 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 46,056 mean recreation visitsOctober: 49,823 mean recreation visitsNovember: 30,774 mean recreation visitsDecember: 28,918 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
January22,73215,34126,60810
February22,80911,15829,07810
March49,69621,37558,09910
April42,229056,56710
May55,87690073,75310
June73,81840,780104,58310
July67,95338,883110,21410
August52,84232,45476,12110
September46,05628,77156,83110
October49,823065,02910
November30,77418,18736,56210
December28,91824,56732,44010

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

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Nearest other national parks

Distances are great-circle miles between boundary centroids. They are not road distances or travel times.