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Valles Caldera National Preserve

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About 1.2 million years ago, a spectacular volcanic eruption created a 14-mile-wide circular depression in the earth now known as Valles Caldera. The preserve is known for its huge mountain meadows, abundant wildlife, and meandering streams. The area also preserves the homeland of ancestral native peoples and embraces a rich ranching history.

Activities: Astronomy · Backcountry Hiking · Biking · Birdwatching · Bookstore and Park Store · Cross-Country Skiing · Fishing · Fly Fishing · Food · Freshwater Fishing · Front-Country Hiking · Gift Shop and Souvenirs · Guided Tours · Hiking · Horse Trekking · Horseback Riding · Hunting · Hunting and Gathering · Junior Ranger Program · Mountain Biking · Off-Trail Permitted Hiking · Picnicking · Road Biking · Self-Guided Tours - Auto · Self-Guided Tours - Walking · Shopping · Skiing · Snowshoeing · Stargazing · Wildlife Watching

Monthly recreation visits · 2025

  1. January
    2,172
  2. February
    2,555
  3. March
    4,537
  4. April
    5,266
  5. May
    8,908
  6. June
    10,246
  7. July
    11,357
  8. August
    10,755
  9. September
    10,850
  10. October
    8,732
  11. November
    6,063
  12. December
    3,511

Annual recreation visits · 1979–2025

  1. 2020
    30,434
  2. 2021
    76,578
  3. 2022
    63,738
  4. 2023
    76,090
  5. 2024
    82,111
  6. 2025
    84,952

Published entrance fees

Entrance - Private Vehicle
$25 · The entrance fee for a private vehicle covers seven consecutive days of entrance to Valles Caldera National Preserve.
Entrance - Motorcycle
$20 · Valid for 7 days. Admits up to 2 private, non-commercial motorcycles with up to 4 total passengers.
Entrance - Per Person
$15 · The per-person entrance fee covers seven consecutive days of entrance to Valles Caldera National Preserve.

Published passes

Annual Entrance - Park
$45 · Beginning January 1, 2025, visitors may purchase an annual park pass for Valles Caldera National Preserve.

Published operating hours

Valle Grande Main Entrance · Valle Grande Main Entrance is located at mile marker 39.2 along New Mexico Highway 4.

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

Each season offers a different experience: lush springs, moderate summers, golden falls, and snowy winters. Average temperatures are 22°F (-6 C) in January and 60°F (16 C) in July. Temperature extremes range from a high of 84°F (29 C) in summer to -30°F (-34C) in winter. Precipitation is heavier during summer monsoon rains (thunderstorms) in July and August and winter snowstorms in December through March. Higher elevation lends to much cooler temperatures than nearby Albuquerque.

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78 matching records · Recreation visits
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Valles Caldera National Preserve84,9522025 annual recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve82,1112024 annual recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve76,5782021 annual recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve76,0902023 annual recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve63,7382022 annual recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve30,4342020 annual recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve11,955October 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve11,782September 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve11,751October 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve11,357July 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve10,850September 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve10,755August 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve10,638September 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve10,624July 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve10,330September 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve10,271October 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve10,246June 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve9,612June 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve9,555August 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve9,302July 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve9,145May 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve9,105June 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve9,079June 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve9,028September 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve8,908May 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve8,732October 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve8,555August 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve8,464August 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve8,235May 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve8,203October 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve8,040July 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve7,814May 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve7,709August 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve6,855July 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve6,540August 2020 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve6,120September 2020 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve6,063November 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve5,839October 2020 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve5,614June 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve5,506November 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve5,266April 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve5,002April 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve4,991April 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve4,746April 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve4,537March 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve4,490November 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve4,447April 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve4,173November 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve4,020July 2020 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve3,565March 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve3,561May 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve3,535March 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve3,517December 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve3,511December 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve3,376March 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve3,354March 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve3,301December 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve3,125February 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve3,102January 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve2,969December 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve2,910January 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve2,766January 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve2,555February 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve2,549February 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve2,532January 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve2,495November 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve2,459December 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve2,382February 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve2,172January 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve2,032January 2020 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve1,998February 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve1,949December 2020 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve1,318February 2020 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve1,249November 2020 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve556March 2020 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve371May 2020 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve360June 2020 recreation visitsSource record
Valles Caldera National Preserve80April 2020 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