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Kobuk Valley National Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Kobuk Valley, when the average temperature nearby is 55 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 1 degrees. July runs about 3.1 times the visits of February. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 50.6 percent, from 15,766 in 2019 to 7,786 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 Kotzebue Ralph Wein AP, 98 miles from the park's reference point at 30 feet, station USW00026616 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	7,786	-54.8%
2024	17,233	-2.2%
2023	17,616	+4.1%
2022	16,925	+46.7%
2021	11,540	+3.2%
2020	11,185	-29.1%
2019	15,766	+5.5%
2018	14,937	-3.6%
2017	15,500	0.0%
2016	15,500

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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 USW00026616, 30 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.