Visitation · National Recreation Area

Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area visitation by month and year

June is the busiest month at Chattahoochee River, when the average temperature nearby is 76 degrees. December is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 45 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 344,711 against 185,389. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 14.5 percent, from 3,393,133 in 2019 to 2,901,903 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 Atlanta Peachtree AP, 8 miles from the park's reference point at 1,002 feet, station USW00053863 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, 1980 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	2,901,903	-1.3%
2024	2,940,804	-7.6%
2023	3,183,081	-10.0%
2022	3,537,848	+8.7%
2021	3,256,151	+6.2%
2020	3,066,877	-9.6%
2019	3,393,133	+18.1%
2018	2,873,866	+3.8%
2017	2,768,499	+1.2%
2016	2,736,385	-13.8%

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 USW00053863, 1,002 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.