Reviewed guide · Rocky Mountain

Zion National Park

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

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States on the system list: Utah

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

Anniversary-table date: July 31, 1909

Table note: incorporated Zion National Monument in 1956; incorporated Mukuntuweap National Monument in 1918

Gross area acres: 147,242.66

NPS fee acres: 143,843.31. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid: 37.2795, -113.0457

Containing shoreline polygon: Utah. Not an entrance.

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

Highest mean: June. Lowest mean: January. Mean annual total across complete years: 4,548,610 (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	120,386	84,145	172,747	10
February	135,772	102,269	168,499	10
March	363,748	207,400	446,308	10
April	423,198	40,396	538,541	10
May	500,740	178,194	610,301	10
June	560,033	377,425	675,799	10
July	552,339	449,518	629,802	10
August	476,227	437,134	535,322	10
September	489,094	423,654	520,987	10
October	465,735	377,826	559,342	10
November	272,949	218,799	319,853	10
December	188,390	124,438	237,171	10

How to use this guide

Zion National Park is listed in Utah. The canyon is the reason people go, and it is also the reason a single centroid is a poor substitute for the park’s directions. Shuttle rules, canyon access, and the scenic drive the park publishes are operational facts. When an official scenic-drive page responds, link it. Do not freeze its season into this paragraph.

The visitation record is strongly seasonal. A crowded historic July is not a count of people in the river this afternoon, and a quieter month is not a promise that a road or a permit is available. Pair Zion with other Utah parks on the comparison page if you want the acreage, the dates, and the straight-line gaps in one view. Then leave the routing to the park and to a road map.

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.

Bryce Canyon National Park — about 51 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.
Grand Canyon National Park — about 79 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.
Capitol Reef National Park — about 121 straight-line miles between boundary centroids.