Visitation · National Battlefield

Big Hole National Battlefield visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Big Hole, when the average temperature nearby is 58 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 15 degrees. An average July draws 9,943 visits where an average January draws 305. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 10.7 percent, from 45,861 in 2019 to 40,938 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 Wisdom, 10 miles from the park's reference point at 6,060 feet, station USC00249067 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	40,938	-9.5%
2024	45,211	-18.1%
2023	55,206	+0.8%
2022	54,781	+72.6%
2021	31,734	-12.4%
2020	36,234	-21.0%
2019	45,861	-19.5%
2018	56,943	+55.1%
2017	36,717	-12.1%
2016	41,795	+5.7%

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 USC00249067, 6,060 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.