Visitation · National Historic Site

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site visitation by month and year

September is the busiest month at Bent's Old Fort, when the average temperature nearby is 69 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 32 degrees. An average September draws 2,742 visits where an average January draws 265. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits fell 66.8 percent, from 21,674 in 2019 to 7,190 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 La Junta Muni AP, 5 miles from the park's reference point at 4,194 feet, station USW00023067 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain from the same station, which publishes no snowfall normal.

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	7,190	-55.3%
2024	16,102	-18.3%
2023	19,718	-24.3%
2022	26,057	+20.7%
2021	21,585	+73.5%
2020	12,438	-42.6%
2019	21,674	-8.0%
2018	23,562	-10.7%
2017	26,397	-17.4%
2016	31,948	+21.9%

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 USW00023067, 4,194 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.