Visitation · National Military Park

Kings Mountain National Military Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Kings Mountain, when the average temperature nearby is 77 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 39 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 24,117 against 11,098. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 33.0 percent, from 262,031 in 2019 to 175,511 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 Ninety Nine Is, 9 miles from the park's reference point at 500 feet, station USC00386293 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain from the same station, which publishes no snowfall normal.

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	175,511	-3.8%
2024	182,463	-16.8%
2023	219,267	-8.1%
2022	238,656	-10.2%
2021	265,666	+6.5%
2020	249,477	-4.8%
2019	262,031	-8.9%
2018	287,635	-1.4%
2017	291,841	+10.8%
2016	263,357	+2.4%

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 USC00386293, 500 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.