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Grand Portage National Monument visitation by month and year

August is the busiest month at Grand Portage, when the average temperature nearby is 63 degrees. December is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 18 degrees. An average August draws 21,095 visits where an average December draws 1,288. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 9.7 percent, from 94,985 in 2019 to 85,734 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 Grand Portage, 3 miles from the park's reference point at 730 feet, station USC00213296 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	85,734	-3.6%
2024	88,931	+0.7%
2023	88,291	-5.2%
2022	93,108	+11.2%
2021	83,708	+26.0%
2020	66,426	-30.1%
2019	94,985	+0.9%
2018	94,137	-2.0%
2017	96,051	+0.2%
2016	95,862	+4.5%

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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 USC00213296, 730 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.