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Natural Bridges National Monument visitation by month and year

May is the busiest month at Natural Bridges, when the average temperature nearby is 58 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 30 degrees. An average May draws 13,964 visits where an average January draws 1,118. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits fell 20.1 percent, from 88,090 in 2019 to 70,400 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 Natural Bridges NM, 1 mile from the park's reference point at 6,508 feet, station USC00426053 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, 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	70,400	-7.0%
2024	75,680	-9.6%
2023	83,760	+17.6%
2022	71,249	-3.0%
2021	73,484	+39.9%
2020	52,542	-40.4%
2019	88,090	-14.6%
2018	103,118	-4.0%
2017	107,443	+5.5%
2016	101,843	+7.4%

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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 USC00426053, 6,508 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.