Visitation · National Scenic Riverways

Ozark National Scenic Riverways visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Ozark, when the average temperature nearby is 78 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 33 degrees. An average July draws 275,100 visits where an average January draws 17,369. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 8.6 percent, from 1,221,489 in 2019 to 1,116,835 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 Eminence 1 N, 6 miles from the park's reference point at 640 feet, station USC00232619 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	1,116,835	-16.9%
2024	1,343,779	+0.7%
2023	1,334,137	+3.3%
2022	1,291,305	-2.8%
2021	1,328,773	+0.9%
2020	1,316,795	+7.8%
2019	1,221,489	-3.4%
2018	1,264,657	+8.5%
2017	1,165,296	-6.1%
2016	1,241,480	-2.9%

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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 USC00232619, 640 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.