Fact sheet · Mid-Atlantic

Shenandoah National Park

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

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States on the system list: Virginia

Guide region: Mid-Atlantic. Editorial grouping of the state that contains the centroid, or the first listed state when the point is offshore.

Anniversary-table date: May 22, 1926

Gross area acres: 200,454.01

NPS fee acres: 198,767.91. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid: 38.4724, -78.4640

Containing shoreline polygon: Virginia. Not an entrance.

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

Highest mean: October. Lowest mean: January. Mean annual total across complete years: 1,527,285 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

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
Month	Mean	Lowest year	Highest year	Years in the mean
January	22,916	11,989	37,588	10
February	26,802	9,991	43,927	10
March	69,205	38,601	133,333	10
April	104,662	11,514	139,737	10
May	139,537	46,903	173,115	10
June	166,681	149,418	189,379	10
July	192,042	167,335	244,677	10
August	185,506	164,375	222,592	10
September	155,520	109,786	202,100	10
October	290,480	202,362	365,398	10
November	141,519	114,473	170,397	10
December	32,415	19,832	45,939	10

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.

New River Gorge National Park and Preserve — about 146 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.
Cuyahoga Valley National Park — about 251 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park — about 340 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.