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Reviewed guide · Rocky Mountain

Rocky Mountain National Park

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

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An interpretive sign stands in front of a flat, open meadow and sharp rocky outcropping, dotted with pines.
Public-domain National Park Service photograph. Credit: NPS/Meg Frisbie, 2012. Asset record.
States on the system list
Colorado
Guide region
Rocky Mountain. Editorial grouping of the state that contains the centroid, or the first listed state when the point is offshore.
Anniversary-table date
January 26, 1915
Gross area acres
265,917.74

NPS fee acres: 264,305.38. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
40.3573, -105.7037

Containing shoreline polygon: Colorado. 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: 4,269,743 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

January: 116,286 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 105,704 mean recreation visitsMarch: 144,590 mean recreation visitsApril: 143,499 mean recreation visitsMay: 279,891 mean recreation visitsJune: 648,909 mean recreation visitsJuly: 840,007 mean recreation visitsAugust: 713,256 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 639,025 mean recreation visitsOctober: 371,731 mean recreation visitsNovember: 145,538 mean recreation visitsDecember: 121,307 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
January116,28695,602140,71510
February105,70484,245133,77110
March144,59097,690162,40310
April143,4990183,79210
May279,89163,051335,06010
June648,909491,355741,24710
July840,007723,478973,99210
August713,256580,368830,03910
September639,025500,019784,48010
October371,731297,665474,95710
November145,538123,376165,04810
December121,30791,831156,16510

How to use this guide

Rocky Mountain National Park is listed in Colorado. A high road the park publishes, when the Trail Ridge page responds, is still a page you have to read for openings and vehicle rules. This guide does not print an elevation or a mileage for it, because those details are the park’s and they are easy to stale.

The recreation-visit record is strongly seasonal. That pattern is not a timed-entry decision. If the park is metering access, the fees and plan-your-visit pages will say so, and they can change after this page was built. The centroid is not an alpine trailhead.

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.