Visitation · National Historic Site

Fort Smith National Historic Site visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Fort Smith, when the average temperature nearby is 83 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 40 degrees. July runs about 3.4 times the visits of January. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 14.8 percent, from 125,500 in 2019 to 106,953 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 Smith Rgnl AP, 5 miles from the park's reference point at 449 feet, station USW00013964 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	106,953	-14.1%
2024	124,486	-7.9%
2023	135,128	+9.7%
2022	123,229	+23.4%
2021	99,854	+47.8%
2020	67,574	-46.2%
2019	125,500	-8.1%
2018	136,568	-3.8%
2017	141,914	-13.3%
2016	163,636	+46.8%

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 USW00013964, 449 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.