Visitation · National Historical Park

Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Paterson Great Falls, when the average temperature nearby is 76 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 32 degrees. July runs about 4.9 times the visits of February. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 31.5 percent, from 276,985 in 2019 to 189,721 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 Little Falls, 3 miles from the park's reference point at 150 feet, station USC00284887 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals.

Annual visits, 2016 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	189,721	-10.0%
2024	210,741	-24.7%
2023	279,788	+12.7%
2022	248,293	-20.6%
2021	312,595	-8.0%
2020	339,768	+22.7%
2019	276,985	+92.9%
2018	143,604	-53.4%
2017	308,199	+73.6%
2016	177,498

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 USC00284887, 150 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.