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Keweenaw National Historical Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Keweenaw, when the average temperature nearby is 65 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 16 degrees. An average July draws 6,542 visits where an average January draws 37. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 72.8 percent from 20,535 in 2019 to 35,489 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 Hancock Houghton Co AP, 2 miles from the park's reference point at 1,095 feet, station USW00014858 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals.

Annual visits, 2016 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	35,489	+13.8%
2024	31,191	+6.7%
2023	29,221	+91.6%
2022	15,255	+22.5%
2021	12,457	+484.8%
2020	2,130	-89.6%
2019	20,535	+0.6%
2018	20,416	+23.9%
2017	16,479	+12.8%
2016	14,612

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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 USW00014858, 1,095 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.