Visitation · National Historical Park

First State National Historical Park visitation by month and year

October is the busiest month at First State, when the average temperature nearby is 55 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 31 degrees. An average October draws 36,445 visits where an average January draws 4,036. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. The park recorded 200,173 recreation visits in 2025. A full 2019 count is not available, so no change figure is given.

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Visits by month, with temperature and precipitation

Bars are the average recreation visits in each month over 2023 to 2025. The line is the average temperature at Wilmington Porter Rsch, 4 miles from the park's reference point at 270 feet, station USC00079605 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, 2023 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	200,173	-4.2%
2024	208,870	+46.0%
2023	143,045
2022	month missing
2021	month missing
2020	month missing
2019	month missing
2018	month missing
2017	month missing
2016	month missing

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 USC00079605, 270 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.