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Friendship Hill National Historic Site visitation by month and year

August is the busiest month at Friendship Hill, when the average temperature nearby is 72 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 30 degrees. August runs about 4.7 times the visits of January. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 47.1 percent, from 34,159 in 2019 to 18,080 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 Grays Landing, 1 mile from the park's reference point at 800 feet, station USC00363451 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, 1983 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	18,080	-7.1%
2024	19,465	+1.1%
2023	19,258	+17.5%
2022	16,395	-0.9%
2021	16,552	-15.0%
2020	19,462	-43.0%
2019	34,159	-18.0%
2018	41,678	+5.8%
2017	39,377	+4.0%
2016	37,847	+9.1%

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 USC00363451, 800 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.