Visitation · National Historic Site

Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Allegheny Portage Railroad, when the average temperature nearby is 71 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 26 degrees. July runs about 3.7 times the visits of January. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 13.9 percent, from 189,189 in 2019 to 162,905 in 2025.

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Visits by month, with temperature and precipitation

Bars are the average recreation visits in each month over 2021 to 2025. The line is the average temperature at Altoona 3 W, 7 miles from the park's reference point at 1,320 feet, station USC00360140 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain and snow from the same station, also 1991 to 2020 averages.

Annual visits, 1979 to 2025

Recreation visits per calendar year. A year with a missing month is left blank rather than estimated.

The last ten years

Year	Recreation visits	Change on prior year
2025	162,905	-16.0%
2024	193,903	-2.9%
2023	199,612	+13.3%
2022	176,144	-6.3%
2021	187,919	+38.1%
2020	136,029	-28.1%
2019	189,189	+0.1%
2018	189,047	-6.3%
2017	201,837	+6.6%
2016	189,371	+12.4%

Visitation at other parks

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Source: NPS Visitor Use Statistics, monthly recreation visits, as compiled for Publicopia Labs. A year is shown only when all twelve months were reported. Temperature, precipitation and snowfall normals are the 1991 to 2020 monthly averages published by NOAA NCEI for station USC00360140, 1,320 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.