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Petroglyph National Monument visitation by month and year

October is the busiest month at Petroglyph, when the average temperature nearby is 58 degrees. August is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 77 degrees. The gap between them is narrow, 38,890 against 20,364. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits rose 5.7 percent from 293,957 in 2019 to 310,672 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 Petroglyph Natl Mon, 2 miles from the park's reference point at 5,121 feet, station USC00296754 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain from the same station, which publishes no snowfall normal.

Annual visits, 1992 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	310,672	-12.4%
2024	354,534	+12.7%
2023	314,528	-7.3%
2022	339,394	-6.8%
2021	364,211	+2.2%
2020	356,492	+21.3%
2019	293,957	+9.4%
2018	268,613	+89.4%
2017	141,803	+14.2%
2016	124,177	+5.4%

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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 USC00296754, 5,121 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.