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Reviewed guide · U.S. Caribbean

Virgin Islands National Park

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

Show on the atlas
A Day at Maho Bay, two chairs in the sand.
Public-domain National Park Service photograph. Credit: NPS Photo Christy McManus. Asset record.
States on the system list
Virgin Islands
Guide region
U.S. Caribbean. Editorial grouping of the state that contains the centroid, or the first listed state when the point is offshore.
Anniversary-table date
August 2, 1956
Gross area acres
15,041.03

NPS fee acres: 13,108.91. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
18.3439, -64.7399

Containing shoreline polygon: not inside a 1:110,000,000 state polygon. 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: 288,752 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

January: 29,640 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 30,486 mean recreation visitsMarch: 33,478 mean recreation visitsApril: 29,044 mean recreation visitsMay: 26,181 mean recreation visitsJune: 25,594 mean recreation visitsJuly: 26,259 mean recreation visitsAugust: 20,075 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 9,696 mean recreation visitsOctober: 11,555 mean recreation visitsNovember: 20,061 mean recreation visitsDecember: 26,683 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
January29,64035054,59710
February30,4861,56851,31910
March33,4785,58355,37210
April29,04410,55251,29410
May26,181043,62110
June25,5943,64542,84610
July26,2598,19144,22810
August20,0758,29832,91010
September9,696017,22410
October11,555020,50310
November20,061032,74010
December26,68328546,89210

How to use this guide

Virgin Islands National Park is the national park the system list places in the Virgin Islands. The atlas draws a separate inset, at its own scale, using a 1:50,000,000 shoreline because the national 1:110,000,000 map does not resolve these islands. The centroid is not a ferry dock and not a beach access.

The monthly record peaks outside the June–August window that describes many continental parks. That is history, not a hurricane forecast and not a statement that a month is calm. Storms, marine conditions, and concession schedules outrun a static page. Use the park’s conditions and directions pages, and do not treat a straight-line distance to a mainland park as a travel plan.

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.