Visitation · National River & Recreation Area

Mississippi National River & Recreation Area visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Mississippi, when the average temperature nearby is 73 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 16 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 30,210 against 16,180. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 40.0 percent, from 374,682 in 2019 to 224,722 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 St Paul Downtown AP, 2 miles from the park's reference point at 700 feet, station USW00014927 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, 2011 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	224,722	-12.3%
2024	256,133	-13.1%
2023	294,700	-3.0%
2022	303,882	+33.0%
2021	228,460	+11.6%
2020	204,707	-45.4%
2019	374,682	-10.2%
2018	417,022	-4.5%
2017	436,734	+70.0%
2016	256,944	+101.3%

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 USW00014927, 700 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.