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Great Basin National Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Great Basin, when the average temperature nearby is 71 degrees. December is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 30 degrees. An average July draws 26,101 visits where an average December draws 1,787. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 22.3 percent from 131,802 in 2019 to 161,210 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 Great Basin NP, 5 miles from the park's reference point at 6,850 feet, station USC00263340 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	161,210	+6.0%
2024	152,068	+6.1%
2023	143,265	+0.8%
2022	142,115	-1.9%
2021	144,875	+20.5%
2020	120,248	-8.8%
2019	131,802	-13.9%
2018	153,094	-8.9%
2017	168,028	+16.0%
2016	144,846	+24.7%

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 USC00263340, 6,850 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.