Visitation · National Historical Park

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park visitation by month and year

August is the busiest month at Klondike Gold Rush, when the average temperature nearby is 57 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 28 degrees. An average August draws 190,836 visits where an average February draws 12. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 33.5 percent from 1,116,161 in 2019 to 1,489,935 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 Skagway, 11 miles from the park's reference point at 35 feet, station USC00508525 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, 1982 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	1,489,935	+11.5%
2024	1,336,008	+4.0%
2023	1,284,320	+274.5%
2022	342,909	+932.0%
2021	33,228	+11087.9%
2020	297	-100.0%
2019	1,116,161	+9.7%
2018	1,017,298	+12.2%
2017	906,485	-0.6%
2016	912,351	-0.8%

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 USC00508525, 35 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.