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Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Bighorn Canyon, when the average temperature nearby is 74 degrees. December is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 30 degrees. An average July draws 49,402 visits where an average December draws 4,238. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 8.5 percent, from 249,659 in 2019 to 228,382 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 Yellowtail Dam, 16 miles from the park's reference point at 3,305 feet, station USC00249240 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	228,382	+3.9%
2024	219,815	+1.0%
2023	217,731	+0.0%
2022	217,660	-0.8%
2021	219,505	+3.4%
2020	212,295	-15.0%
2019	249,659	+6.0%
2018	235,570	+1.6%
2017	231,836	-10.7%
2016	259,485	+5.8%

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 USC00249240, 3,305 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.