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Fossil Butte National Monument visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Fossil Butte, when the average temperature nearby is 63 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 16 degrees. An average July draws 4,583 visits where an average January draws 108. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits were about level between 2019 and 2025, 20,554 against 20,626.

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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 Fossil Butte, 1 mile from the park's reference point at 6,785 feet, station USC00483582 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	20,626	-4.0%
2024	21,491	+10.9%
2023	19,377	+8.4%
2022	17,879	-15.5%
2021	21,153	+60.5%
2020	13,176	-35.9%
2019	20,554	-3.7%
2018	21,349	-2.9%
2017	21,978	+6.0%
2016	20,737	+7.5%

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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, precipitation and snowfall normals are the 1991 to 2020 monthly averages published by NOAA NCEI for station USC00483582, 6,785 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.