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Reconstruction Era National Historical Park

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The Reconstruction era,1861-1900 the historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, economic, and labor systems, was a time of significant transformation. The people, places, and events in Beaufort County, South Carolina, reflect on the most important issues of this tumultuous time period.

Activities: Bookstore and Park Store · Guided Tours · Hiking · Junior Ranger Program · Self-Guided Tours - Walking · Shopping

Monthly recreation visits · 2025

  1. January
    1,058
  2. February
    2,438
  3. March
    3,528
  4. April
    3,360
  5. May
    2,421
  6. June
    2,219
  7. July
    1,988
  8. August
    1,470
  9. September
    1,673
  10. October
    0
  11. November
    1,077
  12. December
    1,974

Annual recreation visits · 1979–2025

  1. 2022
    18,262
  2. 2023
    23,792
  3. 2024
    23,378
  4. 2025
    23,206

Published entrance fees

No fee entries were supplied in this snapshot. Check the official park page.

Published passes

No fee entries were supplied in this snapshot. Check the official park page.

Published operating hours

Park Hours · The park grounds are open daily from sunrise to sunset. In addition, the park maintains several visitor centers and contact stations throughout the region.

Fees, facilities and activities are the 2026-10-03 NPS snapshot. Historical visitation describes recorded visits, not crowding forecasts or present conditions.

Plan your visit

Winters can be mild, with periods of cold weather. During the Spring and Fall, weather is typically nice, with highs in the 70s and 80s. Summers can be very hot, with high temperatures and high humidity. Located in a coastal region, the park is susceptible to hurricanes during the Summer and Fall.

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52 matching records · Recreation visits
Place / recordRecreation visitsContextExplore
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park23,7922023 annual recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park23,3782024 annual recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park23,2062025 annual recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park18,2622022 annual recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park3,528March 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park3,360April 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park3,043March 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park3,012April 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park2,840March 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park2,818April 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park2,534May 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park2,522March 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park2,449June 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park2,438February 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park2,421May 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park2,324May 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park2,282June 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park2,260April 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park2,219June 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park2,199July 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park2,016May 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,988July 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,978February 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,978October 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,974December 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,867October 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,824November 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,803July 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,724February 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,723September 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,673September 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,652August 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,611November 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,554November 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,541October 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,481June 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,470August 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,410December 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,403July 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,378January 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,368December 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,367September 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,261January 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,226February 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,197August 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,190December 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,077November 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,058January 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park1,047September 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park903August 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park647January 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park0October 2025 recreation visitsSource record

SOURCES & DEFINITIONS

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Source: National Park Service API for sites, facilities, campground locations and published fee entries; NPS Public Use Statistics for monthly recreation visits, 1979–2025. Snapshot retrieved 2026-10-03. 474 NPS site records include 62 national-park API records; Sequoia and Kings Canyon share one API record. These record counts are not the official count of individually designated parks. 392 API site records have matched visitation history, including the separately reported Sequoia and Kings Canyon visit totals combined for their shared API record. 665 campgrounds are included.

Complete monthly series reconcile with the source’s annual totals. Published annual totals remain available for years with partial monthly reporting. Four monthly entries contain negative accounting corrections. They remain in the archived data and annual totals, and are unavailable as ordinary monthly visit counts. Blank data is not zero. Recreation visits are visits, not unique people. Month as percent of annual peak = selected month visits ÷ largest monthly count that year × 100, requiring twelve nonnegative monthly values. This helps compare recorded seasonality; it is not a crowding forecast, reservation forecast, or present-condition report.

Activities and amenities reflect published NPS entries, rather than a guarantee of access on a particular day. Fees and pass categories are dated 2026-10-03; official site and reservation links provide current conditions and rules. Campground points are published NPS coordinates. Offshore sites can be viewed on the world extent. Broader public-land agencies are outside this reviewed NPS snapshot.

World outlines: Natural Earth 1:50m map units, public domain. U.S. state outlines: Census via us-atlas. Source licenses apply to their respective inputs and derived data. Download the derived parks snapshot · Source manifest, retrieval dates and SHA-256 hashes.

Archived inputs and attribution (14)
  • nps-parks.json · National Park Service · NPS federal data; media rights vary by credit · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 3,921,936 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: 29b719dea3c3361c4ef1d7c0f068da09ee366e5335907442453b08db7737072b
  • nps-campgrounds.json · National Park Service · NPS federal data; media rights vary by credit · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 3,464,748 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: 9762634332c69e5ed729fbe4751a163cab534722c07c7e595b857e9a372b75e3
  • nps-campgrounds-500.json · National Park Service · NPS federal data; media rights vary by credit · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 967,966 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: 4160009fb0ddc173680428bba03b765398deeca9d303a518821967c7db5fea20
  • nps-visitation-2025-2025.csv · National Park Service · NPS federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 1,071,221 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: 878c51940ae94a29c7e47518d2321713e6d48ad9b008408530723745ca5fab5a
  • nps-visitation-2021-2024.csv · National Park Service · NPS federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 4,209,731 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: 508548d54089885eb78af5a81c63856ba289c01ee8f39c2d096267b3cf9ce243
  • nps-visitation-1979-1983.csv · National Park Service · NPS federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 3,868,488 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: 494795b9ffb6da1f00e10614cde87ef8b18aca67e9c504c2196ba0346c21ddd7
  • nps-visitation-1984-1988.csv · National Park Service · NPS federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 4,171,732 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: cd6e3b86c83ecc9ab11d123ea8f560f0590446020fe66eea21e272eb8d931eb7
  • nps-visitation-1989-1993.csv · National Park Service · NPS federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 4,393,574 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: 22960690990cec0c7af0e7a55d87ef7ee3d8a116afd81bf753c821f65e50ad00
  • nps-visitation-1994-1998.csv · National Park Service · NPS federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 4,538,236 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: c021fdd6108c9d3e1047b954376cf8e01c4f8abf0f327dfe081596dff7939e48
  • nps-visitation-1999-2003.csv · National Park Service · NPS federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 4,704,673 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: da3f808031e6f26e1e36c42cc11403b415e24e67844762ac51f33998d2c1cd5f
  • nps-visitation-2004-2008.csv · National Park Service · NPS federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 4,844,655 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: 373f1d9ae9eff33e2e73b3bfc26d26c6504d2f831fc5b41c5c1e3df7bade6047
  • nps-visitation-2009-2013.csv · National Park Service · NPS federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 4,928,350 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: 968591a7dd40985cc44fea48568b8a0880953c7b982b328a6c88077d064c12c2
  • nps-visitation-2014-2018.csv · National Park Service · NPS federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 5,057,268 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: 76f1e2173bee73eee3550e4e2e3a987e19d67d4f6841c9c726fa412360a3fb20
  • nps-visitation-2019-2020.csv · National Park Service · NPS federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 2,028,678 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
    SHA-256: 661d426529aa1b5771d52e29c90758b943edf883fa8e1f9c53f76851e450e5f1