Visitation · National Historic Site

Minuteman Missile National Historic Site visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Minuteman Missile, when the average temperature nearby is 74 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 24 degrees. An average July draws 27,083 visits where an average February draws 704. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 18.8 percent, from 125,776 in 2019 to 102,146 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 Cottonwood 2 E, 9 miles from the park's reference point at 2,373 feet, station USC00391972 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain and snow from the same station, also 1991 to 2020 averages.

Annual visits, 2004 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	102,146	-13.5%
2024	118,108	+2.0%
2023	115,769	+9.4%
2022	105,776	-24.6%
2021	140,280	+41.8%
2020	98,908	-21.4%
2019	125,776	-9.7%
2018	139,273	-3.1%
2017	143,715	+7.3%
2016	133,895	+33.2%

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 USC00391972, 2,373 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.