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Harpers Ferry National Historical Park visitation by month and year

October is the busiest month at Harpers Ferry, when the average temperature nearby is 54 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 31 degrees. An average October draws 59,355 visits where an average January draws 5,115. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits rose 79.5 percent from 299,577 in 2019 to 537,876 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 Sharpsburg 5 S, 6 miles from the park's reference point at 400 feet, station USC00188207 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	537,876	+10.2%
2024	488,049	+14.2%
2023	427,317	+5.0%
2022	407,008	+31.3%
2021	309,901	+32.2%
2020	234,473	-21.7%
2019	299,577	+12.7%
2018	265,737	-22.4%
2017	342,535	+2.0%
2016	335,691	+18.7%

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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 USC00188207, 400 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.