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Gates Of The Arctic National Park & Preserve visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Gates Of The Arctic, when the average temperature nearby is 60 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is -11 degrees. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 41.9 percent from 10,518 in 2019 to 14,923 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 Bettles AP, 75 miles from the park's reference point at 642 feet, station USW00026533 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, 1982 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	14,923	+25.3%
2024	11,907	+7.8%
2023	11,045	+16.8%
2022	9,457	+28.5%
2021	7,362	+156.3%
2020	2,872	-72.7%
2019	10,518	+9.7%
2018	9,591	-14.2%
2017	11,177	+11.2%
2016	10,047	-6.5%

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 USW00026533, 642 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.