Visitation · National Scenic River

Niobrara National Scenic River visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Niobrara, when the average temperature nearby is 74 degrees. December is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 24 degrees. An average July draws 26,167 visits where an average December draws 357. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 27.4 percent from 60,812 in 2019 to 77,476 in 2025.

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Visits by month, with average temperature

Bars are the average recreation visits in each month over 2021 to 2025. The line is the average temperature at Springview 2Nw, 8 miles from the park's reference point at 2,388 feet, station USC00258090 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals.

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	77,476	+4.2%
2024	74,387	-1.1%
2023	75,219	-6.1%
2022	80,071	-11.7%
2021	90,670	-11.8%
2020	102,766	+69.0%
2019	60,812	-1.3%
2018	61,639	-23.7%
2017	80,806	+9.5%
2016	73,813	+8.4%

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 normals are the 1991 to 2020 monthly averages published by NOAA NCEI for station USC00258090, 2,388 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.