Visitation · National Military Park

Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Chickamauga & Chattanooga, when the average temperature nearby is 78 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 40 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 97,450 against 61,238. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits were about level between 2019 and 2025, 977,158 against 971,647.

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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 Chickamauga Pk Larc, 2 miles from the park's reference point at 782 feet, station USC00091908 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, 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	971,647	-3.1%
2024	1,003,081	-1.8%
2023	1,021,822	+6.0%
2022	964,272	+2.0%
2021	945,390	+39.4%
2020	678,414	-30.6%
2019	977,158	+3.3%
2018	945,962	-4.9%
2017	994,537	-3.2%
2016	1,027,738	+2.5%

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 USC00091908, 782 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.