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Fact sheet · Southwest

Saguaro National Park

Unit code SAGU. 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
March 1, 1933

Table note: redesignated from a National Monument 1994

Gross area acres
92,799.73

NPS fee acres: 88,126.40. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
32.1707, -110.6184

Containing shoreline polygon: Arizona. 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: 931,805 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

January: 107,142 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 129,617 mean recreation visitsMarch: 147,634 mean recreation visitsApril: 98,503 mean recreation visitsMay: 60,186 mean recreation visitsJune: 40,060 mean recreation visitsJuly: 39,693 mean recreation visitsAugust: 40,138 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 39,095 mean recreation visitsOctober: 54,955 mean recreation visitsNovember: 77,292 mean recreation visitsDecember: 97,490 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
January107,14248,968186,50510
February129,617101,597177,72610
March147,63498,901201,01010
April98,50322,820124,26710
May60,18622,30077,48810
June40,06019,80859,11510
July39,69325,64951,67210
August40,13824,30156,23210
September39,09523,93444,81210
October54,95534,85964,52910
November77,29252,37796,30210
December97,49062,792163,33910

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.