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Hopewell Culture National Historical Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Hopewell Culture, when the average temperature nearby is 75 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 30 degrees. July runs about 7.6 times the visits of January. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 13.9 percent, from 60,338 in 2019 to 51,969 in 2025.

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Visits by month, with average temperature

Bars are the average recreation visits in each month over 2021 to 2025. The line is the average temperature at Chillicothe Mound City, 6 miles from the park's reference point at 650 feet, station USC00331528 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals.

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	51,969	-20.5%
2024	65,350	+5.2%
2023	62,113	+19.8%
2022	51,850	+8.4%
2021	47,847	+34.0%
2020	35,710	-40.8%
2019	60,338	+5.2%
2018	57,335	-8.1%
2017	62,413	+7.5%
2016	58,058	+33.2%

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 normals are the 1991 to 2020 monthly averages published by NOAA NCEI for station USC00331528, 650 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.