Visitation · National Preserve

Big Cypress National Preserve visitation by month and year

March is the busiest month at Big Cypress, when the average temperature nearby is 71 degrees. September is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 84 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 307,786 against 124,241. The peak sits well away from the warmest month, which is August. Annual visits rose 124.6 percent from 1,007,471 in 2019 to 2,262,731 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 Oasis RS, 8 miles from the park's reference point at 8 feet, station USC00086406 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain from the same station, which records under an inch of snow a year.

Annual visits, 1989 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	2,262,731	+2.1%
2024	2,216,708	+20.0%
2023	1,846,562	-36.4%
2022	2,903,159	+13.2%
2021	2,563,810	+116.9%
2020	1,181,930	+17.3%
2019	1,007,471	+26.8%
2018	794,350	-13.9%
2017	922,883	-16.3%
2016	1,102,148	-0.9%

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 USC00086406, 8 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.