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Fact sheet · Midwest

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

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

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States on the system list
North Dakota
Guide region
Midwest. Editorial grouping of the state that contains the centroid, or the first listed state when the point is offshore.
Anniversary-table date
April 25, 1947

Table note: authorized Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park, redesignated 1978

Gross area acres
70,446.04

NPS fee acres: 69,705.36. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
46.9558, -103.4630

Containing shoreline polygon: North Dakota. Not an entrance.

Recreation-visit record
Highest monthly mean is in June, July, or August

Highest mean: July. Lowest mean: December. Mean annual total across complete years: 712,870 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

January: 2,759 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 2,908 mean recreation visitsMarch: 9,313 mean recreation visitsApril: 11,972 mean recreation visitsMay: 69,604 mean recreation visitsJune: 129,160 mean recreation visitsJuly: 157,344 mean recreation visitsAugust: 146,276 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 109,788 mean recreation visitsOctober: 56,370 mean recreation visitsNovember: 14,644 mean recreation visitsDecember: 2,734 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
January2,7598506,86610
February2,9081,1875,16210
March9,3135,72715,12510
April11,9723,27822,13710
May69,60419,61883,86510
June129,160106,279150,23210
July157,344124,698176,27110
August146,276118,836160,36010
September109,78887,640130,01810
October56,37046,04378,66710
November14,6444,61423,08810
December2,7341,3276,87410

How to use this fact sheet

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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.