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Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument visitation by month and year

June is the busiest month at Florissant Fossil Beds, when the average temperature nearby is 56 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 22 degrees. June runs about 7.2 times the visits of January. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 17.7 percent, from 77,340 in 2019 to 63,680 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 Florissant Fossil Bed, under a mile from the park's reference point at 8,402 feet, station USC00052965 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	63,680	-10.9%
2024	71,499	+12.2%
2023	63,739	-5.1%
2022	67,174	-10.6%
2021	75,128	+23.0%
2020	61,081	-21.0%
2019	77,340	-2.8%
2018	79,568	+10.9%
2017	71,763	-2.4%
2016	73,564	+6.4%

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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 USC00052965, 8,402 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.