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Homestead National Historical Park visitation by month and year

June is the busiest month at Homestead, when the average temperature nearby is 73 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 24 degrees. June runs about 4.3 times the visits of January. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 30.1 percent, from 61,636 in 2019 to 43,099 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 Beatrice 1N, 4 miles from the park's reference point at 1,297 feet, station USC00250622 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	43,099	-17.6%
2024	52,330	+5.0%
2023	49,848	+4.7%
2022	47,614	-12.0%
2021	54,113	+32.3%
2020	40,897	-33.6%
2019	61,636	-9.5%
2018	68,091	-44.8%
2017	123,400	+40.6%
2016	87,755	+11.5%

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, precipitation and snowfall normals are the 1991 to 2020 monthly averages published by NOAA NCEI for station USC00250622, 1,297 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.