Visitation · National Historical Park

Cane River Creole National Historical Park visitation by month and year

March is the busiest month at Cane River Creole, when the average temperature nearby is 61 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 50 degrees. March runs about 2.9 times the visits of January. The peak sits well away from the warmest month, which is July. Annual visits fell 62.6 percent, from 29,922 in 2019 to 11,203 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 Natchitoches, 10 miles from the park's reference point at 130 feet, station USC00166582 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, 2002 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	11,203	-11.0%
2024	12,592	+7.6%
2023	11,701	-21.0%
2022	14,811	-1.2%
2021	14,984	-14.0%
2020	17,430	-41.7%
2019	29,922	+11.3%
2018	26,879	-10.8%
2017	30,117	+12.1%
2016	26,863	-13.0%

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 USC00166582, 130 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.