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Fact sheet · Alaska

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park

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

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States on the system list
Alaska
Guide region
Alaska. Editorial grouping of the state that contains the centroid, or the first listed state when the point is offshore.
Anniversary-table date
December 1, 1978

Table note: incorporated Wrangell-St. Elias National Monument by ANILCA 1980

Gross area acres
8,323,146.48

NPS fee acres: 7,956,729.18. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
62.2226, -142.2866

Containing shoreline polygon: Alaska. Not an entrance.

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

Highest mean: July. Lowest mean: January. Mean annual total across complete years: 70,220 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

January: 25 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 95 mean recreation visitsMarch: 230 mean recreation visitsApril: 520 mean recreation visitsMay: 3,931 mean recreation visitsJune: 15,735 mean recreation visitsJuly: 22,967 mean recreation visitsAugust: 19,379 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 6,712 mean recreation visitsOctober: 530 mean recreation visitsNovember: 60 mean recreation visitsDecember: 35 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
January25252510
February95959510
March23023023010
April52052052010
May3,9312836,35210
June15,7357026,46110
July22,9675,41037,12010
August19,3796,07730,88710
September6,7123,3208,62410
October53053053010
November60606010
December35353510

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

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Nearest other national parks

Distances are great-circle miles between boundary centroids. They are not road distances or travel times.