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Big Thicket National Preserve visitation by month and year

August is the busiest month at Big Thicket, when the average temperature nearby is 84 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 54 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 24,468 against 16,909. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 10.8 percent, from 255,926 in 2019 to 228,310 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 Wildwood, 6 miles from the park's reference point at 200 feet, station USC00419754 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, 1981 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	228,310	-16.0%
2024	271,823	+3.4%
2023	262,791	-5.1%
2022	276,788	-4.8%
2021	290,837	-5.9%
2020	309,053	+20.8%
2019	255,926	+15.5%
2018	221,514	+29.8%
2017	170,649	-11.5%
2016	192,809	+53.2%

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 USC00419754, 200 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.