Visitation · National Recreation Area

Curecanti National Recreation Area visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Curecanti, when the average temperature nearby is 64 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 12 degrees. An average July draws 202,666 visits where an average January draws 15,170. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 3.5 percent, from 836,034 in 2019 to 807,117 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 Blue Mesa Lake, 9 miles from the park's reference point at 7,568 feet, station USC00050797 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	807,117	-17.7%
2024	980,899	+2.4%
2023	957,635	-3.5%
2022	992,749	-4.9%
2021	1,043,725	+13.3%
2020	921,584	+10.2%
2019	836,034	-10.2%
2018	931,512	-10.6%
2017	1,041,446	+6.0%
2016	982,498	+4.0%

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 USC00050797, 7,568 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.