Visitation · National Historic Site

Fort Bowie National Historic Site visitation by month and year

March is the busiest month at Fort Bowie, when the average temperature nearby is 52 degrees. August is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 73 degrees. An average March draws 1,590 visits where an average August draws 145. The peak sits well away from the warmest month, which is July. Annual visits rose 15.3 percent from 7,577 in 2019 to 8,739 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 Chiricahua NM, 11 miles from the park's reference point at 5,300 feet, station USC00021664 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	8,739	+3.0%
2024	8,483	+1.8%
2023	8,333	+5.3%
2022	7,913	-14.7%
2021	9,280	+43.7%
2020	6,456	-14.8%
2019	7,577	-9.8%
2018	8,401	-1.1%
2017	8,491	+6.0%
2016	8,013	+3.3%

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 USC00021664, 5,300 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.