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Fact sheet · Pacific

Sequoia National Park

Unit code SEQU. 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
September 25, 1890
Gross area acres
404,062.63

NPS fee acres: 403,922.88. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
36.4964, -118.5604

Containing shoreline polygon: California. 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: 1,169,890 (10 complete years).

Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park share the National Park Service website nps.gov/seki. Acreage and recreation visits on this page use the separate unit code SEQU.

The monthly record

January: 41,563 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 38,300 mean recreation visitsMarch: 54,899 mean recreation visitsApril: 75,640 mean recreation visitsMay: 111,633 mean recreation visitsJune: 136,368 mean recreation visitsJuly: 200,689 mean recreation visitsAugust: 184,650 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 128,209 mean recreation visitsOctober: 91,491 mean recreation visitsNovember: 59,699 mean recreation visitsDecember: 46,748 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
January41,56326,00665,17710
February38,30027,30654,16210
March54,8995,21479,43110
April75,6400104,65510
May111,6330138,74910
June136,36852,901169,61810
July200,689182,423232,40310
August184,650155,567200,33710
September128,20950,597150,58010
October91,49122,545122,79410
November59,69925,40679,47710
December46,74824,57861,59910

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

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.