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Redwood National and State Parks visitation by month and year

June is the busiest month at Redwood, when the average temperature nearby is 55 degrees. December is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 44 degrees. June runs about 4.2 times the visits of December. The warmest month is August, a little off the peak. Annual visits rose 138.2 percent from 504,722 in 2019 to 1,202,480 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 Orick Prairie Creek Park, 1 mile from the park's reference point at 160 feet, station USC00046498 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals.

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	1,202,480	+93.1%
2024	622,883	+52.3%
2023	409,105	-10.8%
2022	458,400	+5.2%
2021	435,879	+64.4%
2020	265,177	-47.5%
2019	504,722	+4.6%
2018	482,536	+8.4%
2017	445,000	-17.0%
2016	536,297	+1.7%

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 USC00046498, 160 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.