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Camp Nelson National Monument visitation by month and year

May is the busiest month at Camp Nelson, when the average temperature nearby is 66 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 36 degrees. May runs about 6.0 times the visits of January. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. The park recorded 20,763 recreation visits in 2025. A full 2019 count is not available, so no change figure is given.

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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 Dix Dam, 6 miles from the park's reference point at 870 feet, station USC00152214 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, 2021 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	20,763	-40.2%
2024	34,716	+111.7%
2023	16,397	+1.1%
2022	16,217	-62.4%
2021	43,095
2020	month missing
2019	month missing
2018	month missing
2017	month missing
2016	month missing

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 USC00152214, 870 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.