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Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site visitation by month and year

August is the busiest month at Hopewell Furnace, when the average temperature nearby is 72 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 29 degrees. August runs about 5.2 times the visits of January. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 8.0 percent, from 49,861 in 2019 to 45,897 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 Hopewell Morgantown, 7 miles from the park's reference point at 550 feet, station USC00364076 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	45,897	-5.9%
2024	48,776	-10.2%
2023	54,293	-5.1%
2022	57,238	+16.2%
2021	49,248	+43.6%
2020	34,288	-31.2%
2019	49,861	+7.4%
2018	46,407	-5.9%
2017	49,306	-9.0%
2016	54,167	+5.7%

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 normals are the 1991 to 2020 monthly averages published by NOAA NCEI for station USC00364076, 550 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.