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Lava Beds National Monument visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Lava Beds, when the average temperature nearby is 69 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 33 degrees. July runs about 5.1 times the visits of January. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 31.0 percent from 109,630 in 2019 to 143,659 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 Lava Beds Nat Mon, 4 miles from the park's reference point at 4,770 feet, station USC00044838 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, 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	143,659	+12.6%
2024	127,563	-6.3%
2023	136,164	+4.0%
2022	130,969	+26.0%
2021	103,946	-6.6%
2020	111,258	+1.5%
2019	109,630	-14.2%
2018	127,771	-5.6%
2017	135,286	+5.9%
2016	127,699	+17.5%

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 USC00044838, 4,770 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.