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Mesa Verde National Park visitation by month and year

June is the busiest month at Mesa Verde, when the average temperature nearby is 65 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 28 degrees. An average June draws 94,022 visits where an average January draws 6,140. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 16.7 percent, from 556,203 in 2019 to 463,130 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 Cortez 8 SE, 3 miles from the park's reference point at 8,034 feet, station USW00003061 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	463,130	-3.5%
2024	480,065	-5.0%
2023	505,194	+1.1%
2022	499,790	-8.9%
2021	548,477	+90.8%
2020	287,477	-48.3%
2019	556,203	-1.3%
2018	563,420	-8.2%
2017	613,788	+5.2%
2016	583,527	+6.6%

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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 USW00003061, 8,034 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.