Visitation · National Recreation Area

Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Lake Roosevelt, when the average temperature nearby is 68 degrees. December is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 27 degrees. An average July draws 236,020 visits where an average December draws 27,958. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 12.9 percent, from 1,358,818 in 2019 to 1,183,757 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 Chewelah, 29 miles from the park's reference point at 1,670 feet, station USC00451395 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	1,183,757	+8.5%
2024	1,091,489	-4.3%
2023	1,140,360	+1.0%
2022	1,128,725	-15.6%
2021	1,336,629	-12.0%
2020	1,519,403	+11.8%
2019	1,358,818	+6.4%
2018	1,276,722	-2.1%
2017	1,304,403	+4.1%
2016	1,253,571	+7.1%

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 USC00451395, 1,670 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.