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Lake Meredith National Recreation Area visitation by month and year

June is the busiest month at Lake Meredith, when the average temperature nearby is 77 degrees. November is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 47 degrees. An average June draws 216,669 visits where an average November draws 26,703. The peak falls with the warmth, though November is not the coldest month. Annual visits fell 23.4 percent, from 1,328,340 in 2019 to 1,017,135 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 Sanford Dam, 10 miles from the park's reference point at 2,936 feet, station USC00418040 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	1,017,135	-16.1%
2024	1,212,905	-9.3%
2023	1,337,683	+4.8%
2022	1,276,717	-2.4%
2021	1,307,769	-18.9%
2020	1,612,784	+21.4%
2019	1,328,340	+20.1%
2018	1,106,233	-16.8%
2017	1,329,076	+29.6%
2016	1,025,613	+23.4%

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 USC00418040, 2,936 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.