Visitation · National Historical Park

Cumberland Gap National Historical Park visitation by month and year

October is the busiest month at Cumberland Gap, when the average temperature nearby is 55 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 33 degrees. October runs about 3.0 times the visits of January. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits rose 8.6 percent from 704,598 in 2019 to 765,010 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 Tazewell, 11 miles from the park's reference point at 1,365 feet, station USC00408868 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	765,010	+4.9%
2024	729,249	-8.5%
2023	797,346	+8.8%
2022	732,916	-10.0%
2021	814,119	+10.7%
2020	735,447	+4.4%
2019	704,598	+3.0%
2018	684,191	-7.2%
2017	737,547	-10.1%
2016	820,387	-2.4%

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 USC00408868, 1,365 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.