Visitation · National Recreational River

Missouri National Recreational River visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Missouri, when the average temperature nearby is 74 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 24 degrees. July runs about 3.2 times the visits of February. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 28.7 percent from 129,280 in 2019 to 166,390 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 Crofton, 6 miles from the park's reference point at 1,400 feet, station USC00252037 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	166,390	+8.4%
2024	153,521	+32.1%
2023	116,189	-12.7%
2022	133,162	-5.4%
2021	140,814	+26.2%
2020	111,602	-13.7%
2019	129,280	+0.5%
2018	128,657	+7.4%
2017	119,816	-19.2%
2016	148,210	+2.2%

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 USC00252037, 1,400 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.