Visitation · National Scenic Trail

Ice Age National Scenic Trail visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Ice Age, when the average temperature nearby is 70 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 20 degrees. July runs about 3.2 times the visits of February. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. The park recorded 29,125 recreation visits in 2025. A full 2019 count is not available, so no change figure is given.

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Visits by month, with temperature and precipitation

Bars are the average recreation visits in each month over 2024 to 2025. The line is the average temperature at Hancock Exp Farm, 9 miles from the park's reference point at 1,092 feet, station USC00473405 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, 2024 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	29,125	-2.0%
2024	29,711
2023	month missing
2022	month missing
2021	month missing
2020	month missing
2019	month missing
2018	month missing
2017	month missing
2016	month missing

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 USC00473405, 1,092 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.