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Thomas Edison National Historical Park visitation by month and year

June is the busiest month at Thomas Edison, when the average temperature nearby is 70 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 32 degrees. An average June draws 4,727 visits where an average February draws 60. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 47.0 percent, from 42,224 in 2019 to 22,370 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 Essex Fells Service Bldg, 4 miles from the park's reference point at 350 feet, station USC00282768 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	22,370	-34.3%
2024	34,031	+1.6%
2023	33,483	+1.2%
2022	33,095	+123.5%
2021	14,807	+94.7%
2020	7,605	-82.0%
2019	42,224	-10.7%
2018	47,297	-20.3%
2017	59,323	+2.8%
2016	57,694	+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 USC00282768, 350 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.