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Dinosaur National Monument visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Dinosaur, when the average temperature nearby is 76 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 29 degrees. An average July draws 65,794 visits where an average February draws 4,162. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 5.6 percent from 298,965 in 2019 to 315,725 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 Dinosaur 2 E, 18 miles from the park's reference point at 6,062 feet, station USW00094082 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	315,725	-2.0%
2024	322,113	-1.4%
2023	326,529	-7.0%
2022	351,019	-2.4%
2021	359,560	+36.1%
2020	264,145	-11.6%
2019	298,965	-1.8%
2018	304,468	-3.6%
2017	315,859	+3.8%
2016	304,312	+4.3%

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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 USW00094082, 6,062 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.