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Lassen Volcanic National Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Lassen Volcanic, when the average temperature nearby is 63 degrees. December is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 31 degrees. An average July draws 107,728 visits where an average December draws 6,677. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 2.4 percent, from 517,039 in 2019 to 504,777 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 Manzanita Lake, 9 miles from the park's reference point at 5,750 feet, station USC00045311 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	504,777	+41.1%
2024	357,651	-14.6%
2023	418,978	-6.1%
2022	446,291	+24.1%
2021	359,635	-33.7%
2020	542,274	+4.9%
2019	517,039	+3.5%
2018	499,435	-1.5%
2017	507,256	-5.4%
2016	536,068	+14.5%

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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 USC00045311, 5,750 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.