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Fort Donelson National Battlefield visitation by month and year

May is the busiest month at Fort Donelson, when the average temperature nearby is 67 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 37 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 18,824 against 10,324. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits fell 40.6 percent, from 254,431 in 2019 to 151,151 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 Dover 1 W, 3 miles from the park's reference point at 475 feet, station USC00402589 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	151,151	-9.0%
2024	166,026	-7.7%
2023	179,950	-2.0%
2022	183,638	-21.8%
2021	234,898	-27.8%
2020	325,496	+27.9%
2019	254,431	+50.6%
2018	168,986	-19.1%
2017	208,816	-19.5%
2016	259,343	-0.5%

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 USC00402589, 475 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.