Visitation · National Historical Park

Pecos National Historical Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Pecos, when the average temperature nearby is 69 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 32 degrees. July runs about 3.4 times the visits of January. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 15.4 percent, from 43,834 in 2019 to 37,083 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 Pecos NM, 1 mile from the park's reference point at 6,878 feet, station USC00296676 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	37,083	-20.6%
2024	46,726	-7.9%
2023	50,709	+2.1%
2022	49,683	-15.7%
2021	58,944	+60.6%
2020	36,695	-16.3%
2019	43,834	+12.0%
2018	39,129	-3.7%
2017	40,650	+2.4%
2016	39,715	+31.4%

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, precipitation and snowfall normals are the 1991 to 2020 monthly averages published by NOAA NCEI for station USC00296676, 6,878 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.