Fact sheet · Southwest
White Sands National Park
Unit code WHSA. Figures retrieved 2026-11-06. Official alerts, fees, and closures are not copied here.
- States on the system list
- New Mexico
- 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
- January 18, 1933
Table note: redesignated from White Sands National Monument 2019
- Gross area acres
- 146,344.31
NPS fee acres: 146,344.31. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.
- Boundary centroid
- 32.7648, -106.3260
Containing shoreline polygon: New Mexico. Not an entrance.
- Recreation-visit record
- Highest monthly mean is outside June–August
Highest mean: March. Lowest mean: January. Mean annual total across complete years: 637,411 (10 complete years).
On the Chiricahua FAQ, the National Park Service lists White Sands (2019) among recent redesignations. That sentence does not give a month or a day. It is not a substitute for the anniversaries table.
The monthly record
| Month | Mean | Lowest year | Highest year | Years in the mean |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34,227 | 4,693 | 45,083 | 10 |
| February | 38,723 | 30,804 | 44,186 | 10 |
| March | 87,063 | 48,402 | 105,286 | 10 |
| April | 61,916 | 0 | 87,378 | 10 |
| May | 59,961 | 0 | 85,197 | 10 |
| June | 54,302 | 1,449 | 72,891 | 10 |
| July | 64,070 | 43,251 | 86,436 | 10 |
| August | 46,795 | 41,892 | 51,453 | 10 |
| September | 45,667 | 39,255 | 52,738 | 10 |
| October | 50,715 | 22,389 | 63,869 | 10 |
| November | 45,569 | 36,041 | 56,410 | 10 |
| December | 48,402 | 17,051 | 62,242 | 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.
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Nearest other national parks
Distances are great-circle miles between boundary centroids. They are not road distances or travel times.
- Guadalupe Mountains National Park — about 102 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.
- Carlsbad Caverns National Park — about 110 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.
- Chiricahua National Park — about 184 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.