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Little River Canyon National Preserve visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Little River Canyon, when the average temperature nearby is 80 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 42 degrees. July runs about 2.7 times the visits of January. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 20.2 percent from 649,986 in 2019 to 781,518 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 Ft Payne, 6 miles from the park's reference point at 917 feet, station USC00013043 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, 2003 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	781,518	+2.4%
2024	763,209	+8.9%
2023	700,638	-3.5%
2022	726,239	-15.8%
2021	862,606	+7.5%
2020	802,375	+23.4%
2019	649,986	+47.3%
2018	441,177	+20.2%
2017	367,058	-20.7%
2016	462,700	+86.5%

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 USC00013043, 917 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.