Reviewed guide · Pacific

Yosemite National Park

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

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States on the system list: California

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

Anniversary-table date: October 1, 1890

Table note: incorporated Yosemite State Park in 1906

Gross area acres: 761,747.50

NPS fee acres: 760,009.11. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid: 37.8413, -119.5428

Containing shoreline polygon: California. 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: 3,931,880 (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	121,380	67,284	139,780	10
February	139,084	107,012	201,601	10
March	157,080	25,005	286,990	10
April	246,362	0	305,092	10
May	362,328	0	471,844	10
June	508,425	236,534	703,614	10
July	581,472	396,833	780,728	10
August	551,369	375,226	703,153	10
September	489,723	258,561	598,428	10
October	403,564	249,827	488,566	10
November	210,188	136,799	252,249	10
December	160,905	117,454	311,179	10

How to use this guide

Yosemite National Park is listed in California. It is also a park where access rules have been tight enough, often enough, that a copied reservation sentence would be the first thing to go false. This page does not say whether a reservation is required. It tells you where the Park Service will say so: the fees page and the plan-your-visit page.

The centroid sits in the park. It is not a valley overlook and not a trail. The chart shows the shape of reported recreation visits from 2016 through 2025, a window that includes unusual years. Use it to see the historic season, then let the current conditions page decide the week.

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.

Kings Canyon National Park — about 85 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.
Sequoia National Park — about 108 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.
Pinnacles National Park — about 130 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.