Visitation · National Historic Site

Fort Scott National Historic Site visitation by month and year

May is the busiest month at Fort Scott, when the average temperature nearby is 66 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 32 degrees. May runs about 7.9 times the visits of January. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits rose 4.9 percent from 24,068 in 2019 to 25,254 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 Ft Scott, 2 miles from the park's reference point at 884 feet, station USC00142835 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	25,254	+2.4%
2024	24,654	-3.3%
2023	25,493	-5.1%
2022	26,854	+17.3%
2021	22,894	+56.3%
2020	14,652	-39.1%
2019	24,068	-9.1%
2018	26,482	-8.5%
2017	28,948	-1.2%
2016	29,291	+14.7%

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 USC00142835, 884 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.