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Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Carl Sandburg Home, when the average temperature nearby is 74 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 37 degrees. July runs about 2.6 times the visits of January. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 21.3 percent from 78,144 in 2019 to 94,796 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 Hendersonville 1 NE, 4 miles from the park's reference point at 2,160 feet, station USC00313976 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	94,796	-16.4%
2024	113,362	-23.9%
2023	149,043	+88.4%
2022	79,123	+65.4%
2021	47,846	+12.1%
2020	42,672	-45.4%
2019	78,144	+8.5%
2018	72,047	-1.0%
2017	72,777	-9.8%
2016	80,696	+11.1%

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 USC00313976, 2,160 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.