Visitation · National Historical Park

Golden Spike National Historical Park visitation by month and year

May is the busiest month at Golden Spike, when the average temperature nearby is 54 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 24 degrees. May runs about 7.3 times the visits of January. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits fell 50.4 percent, from 108,154 in 2019 to 53,696 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 Brigham City 28 WNW, 1 mile from the park's reference point at 4,951 feet, station USW00004138 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain from the same station, which publishes no snowfall normal.

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	53,696	-2.9%
2024	55,285	+4.3%
2023	53,015	+8.1%
2022	49,042	-7.3%
2021	52,910	-0.4%
2020	53,106	-50.9%
2019	108,154	+79.9%
2018	60,130	-11.3%
2017	67,811	+13.0%
2016	60,027	+1.5%

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 USW00004138, 4,951 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.