Visitation · National Historic Site

Minidoka National Historic Site visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Minidoka, when the average temperature nearby is 73 degrees. December is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 28 degrees. An average July draws 5,179 visits where an average December draws 206. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 219.0 percent from 13,647 in 2019 to 43,539 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 Hazelton, 8 miles from the park's reference point at 4,060 feet, station USC00104140 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, 2017 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	43,539	+97.7%
2024	22,025	+20.0%
2023	18,358	+33.8%
2022	13,717	-8.8%
2021	15,040	+122.9%
2020	6,747	-50.6%
2019	13,647	+18.0%
2018	11,567	-0.5%
2017	11,622
2016	month missing

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 USC00104140, 4,060 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.