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Fact sheet · Pacific

Pinnacles National Park

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

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States on the system list
California
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
January 16, 1908

Table note: redesignated from a national monument in 2013

Gross area acres
26,685.73

NPS fee acres: 26,674.60. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
36.4754, -121.1734

Containing shoreline polygon: California. Not an entrance.

Recreation-visit record
Highest monthly mean is outside June–August

Highest mean: March. Lowest mean: September. Mean annual total across complete years: 267,639 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

January: 18,431 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 21,682 mean recreation visitsMarch: 30,723 mean recreation visitsApril: 30,038 mean recreation visitsMay: 28,274 mean recreation visitsJune: 24,661 mean recreation visitsJuly: 21,608 mean recreation visitsAugust: 18,205 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 15,851 mean recreation visitsOctober: 17,628 mean recreation visitsNovember: 20,657 mean recreation visitsDecember: 19,880 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
January18,4311,15430,34210
February21,68211,73531,31610
March30,72318,53744,67010
April30,0381,63556,33910
May28,2744,64043,70810
June24,66110,36437,02910
July21,60810,50838,82310
August18,2058,52624,94010
September15,8515,85023,96410
October17,62810,66325,61510
November20,65713,98033,74510
December19,88012,11530,29510

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.