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Catoctin Mountain Park visitation by month and year

October is the busiest month at Catoctin Mountain, when the average temperature nearby is 56 degrees. December is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 36 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 51,901 against 23,206. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits rose 55.3 percent from 296,846 in 2019 to 460,857 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 Catoctin Mtn Park, 1 mile from the park's reference point at 1,610 feet, station USC00181530 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, 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	460,857	+21.1%
2024	380,681	-12.0%
2023	432,492	-4.0%
2022	450,322	-13.5%
2021	520,339	-3.6%
2020	539,983	+81.9%
2019	296,846	-1.0%
2018	299,860	+26.9%
2017	236,243	+6.5%
2016	221,750	-3.3%

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 USC00181530, 1,610 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.