Visitation · National Recreation Area

Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Delaware Water Gap, when the average temperature nearby is 73 degrees. December is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 33 degrees. July runs about 3.6 times the visits of December. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 18.1 percent from 3,374,865 in 2019 to 3,986,709 in 2025.

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Visits by month, with average temperature

Bars are the average recreation visits in each month over 2021 to 2025. The line is the average temperature at Newton, 11 miles from the park's reference point at 605 feet, station USC00286177 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals.

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	3,986,709	-2.3%
2024	4,079,763	-3.0%
2023	4,207,541	-3.9%
2022	4,380,225	+0.9%
2021	4,340,902	+6.7%
2020	4,068,529	+20.6%
2019	3,374,865	+3.5%
2018	3,261,921	-4.1%
2017	3,400,944	-7.5%
2016	3,677,744	-1.5%

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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 normals are the 1991 to 2020 monthly averages published by NOAA NCEI for station USC00286177, 605 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.