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Lowell National Historical Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Lowell, when the average temperature nearby is 73 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 27 degrees. An average July draws 88,277 visits where an average February draws 2,926. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 78.7 percent, from 481,536 in 2019 to 102,540 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 Lowell, 2 miles from the park's reference point at 110 feet, station USC00194313 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	102,540	-61.2%
2024	264,456	+3.2%
2023	256,303	+22.5%
2022	209,284	+320.9%
2021	49,721	-7.8%
2020	53,954	-88.8%
2019	481,536	-5.1%
2018	507,276	-9.8%
2017	562,498	+3.8%
2016	541,825	+2.0%

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 USC00194313, 110 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.