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Canyonlands National Park visitation by month and year

May is the busiest month at Canyonlands, when the average temperature nearby is 62 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 30 degrees. An average May draws 121,964 visits where an average January draws 11,501. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits rose 8.5 percent from 733,996 in 2019 to 796,057 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 Canyonlands-The Needles, 8 miles from the park's reference point at 4,906 feet, station USC00421168 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	796,057	-2.7%
2024	818,492	+2.3%
2023	800,322	+2.7%
2022	779,147	-14.5%
2021	911,594	+84.6%
2020	493,914	-32.7%
2019	733,996	-0.7%
2018	739,449	-0.4%
2017	742,271	-4.4%
2016	776,218	+22.3%

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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 USC00421168, 4,906 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.