National parks
How many people visit Kings Canyon National Park?
Kings Canyon National Park had 779,791 recreation visits in 2025, the 30th most of the 63 national parks. Its busiest year since 1979 was 1987, with 1.08 million visits. July and August were its busiest months in 2025, between them 32% of the year's visits.
Visits in 2025
779,791
Up 67% from 468,106 in 2015
Among national parks
30th
most visited of 63
Busiest month of 2025
July
128,217 visits
Recreation visits to Kings Canyon each year
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Recreation visits to Kings Canyon each month of 2025
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The numbers
Recreation visits each year, newest first, and each month of 2025.
| Year | Visits |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 779,791 |
| 2024 | 699,389 |
| 2023 | 643,065 |
| 2022 | 640,986 |
| 2021 | 562,918 |
| 2020 | 415,077 |
| 2019 | 632,110 |
| 2018 | 699,023 |
| 2017 | 692,932 |
| 2016 | 607,479 |
| 2015 | 468,106 |
| 2014 | 502,268 |
| 2013 | 567,544 |
| 2012 | 591,033 |
| 2011 | 566,810 |
| 2010 | 598,205 |
| 2009 | 609,296 |
| 2008 | 574,870 |
| 2007 | 580,129 |
| 2006 | 552,766 |
| 2005 | 594,893 |
| 2004 | 525,035 |
| 2003 | 555,987 |
| 2002 | 545,420 |
| 2001 | 541,787 |
| 2000 | 528,987 |
| 1999 | 559,534 |
| 1998 | 540,212 |
| 1997 | 484,718 |
| 1996 | 502,749 |
| 1995 | 832,794 |
| 1994 | 725,930 |
| 1993 | 636,515 |
| 1992 | 637,446 |
| 1991 | 1,071,022 |
| 1990 | 1,062,867 |
| 1989 | 1,037,349 |
| 1988 | 1,007,695 |
| 1987 | 1,081,172 |
| 1986 | 1,028,785 |
| 1985 | 874,456 |
| 1984 | 937,262 |
| 1983 | 765,755 |
| 1982 | 831,044 |
| 1981 | 776,850 |
| 1980 | 819,065 |
| 1979 | 804,175 |
| Month of 2025 | Visits |
|---|---|
| January | 23,451 |
| February | 15,889 |
| March | 22,823 |
| April | 42,133 |
| May | 98,420 |
| June | 118,936 |
| July | 128,217 |
| August | 119,276 |
| September | 86,040 |
| October | 68,186 |
| November | 35,955 |
| December | 20,465 |
Source and notes
National Park Service, Visitor Use Statistics (Public domain (U.S. government work); source National Park Service).
A recreation visit is one person entering the park for recreation on one day, estimated by the park from traffic counters and sampling; people passing through for work or on a through road aren't counted. Monthly counts begin in 1979 or the park's first year on record, and include the years before it became a national park, when it may have been, say, a national monument. A sudden jump or drop can be a change in how the park counts, and closures (the 2020 pandemic, storms, fires, government shutdowns) show as dips. NPS publishes a year early the next year.