Visitation · National Monument & Preserve

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Craters Of The Moon, when the average temperature nearby is 70 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 20 degrees. An average July draws 49,650 visits where an average January draws 2,392. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 4.3 percent, from 272,224 in 2019 to 260,418 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 Arco 17 SW, 18 miles from the park's reference point at 5,920 feet, station USW00004126 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	260,418	-17.1%
2024	314,118	+21.9%
2023	257,598	+8.3%
2022	237,774	-12.2%
2021	270,829	+8.0%
2020	250,872	-7.8%
2019	272,224	+3.3%
2018	263,506	-7.6%
2017	285,227	+11.7%
2016	255,436	+3.5%

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 USW00004126, 5,920 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.