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Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Hagerman Fossil Beds, when the average temperature nearby is 74 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 30 degrees. An average July draws 6,000 visits where an average January draws 217. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 54.3 percent from 23,768 in 2019 to 36,667 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 Hagerman 2 SW, 2 miles from the park's reference point at 2,897 feet, station USC00103932 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, 1995 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	36,667	-6.2%
2024	39,104	+16.9%
2023	33,444	+33.1%
2022	25,122	+205.0%
2021	8,236	-41.6%
2020	14,113	-40.6%
2019	23,768	-10.2%
2018	26,477	-14.9%
2017	31,122	+19.8%
2016	25,982	+5.2%

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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 USC00103932, 2,897 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.