Visitation · National Historical Park

Reconstruction Era National Historical Park visitation by month and year

March is the busiest month at Reconstruction Era, when the average temperature nearby is 60 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 51 degrees. March runs about 2.7 times the visits of January. The peak sits well away from the warmest month, which is July. The park recorded 23,206 recreation visits in 2025. A full 2019 count is not available, so no change figure is given.

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Visits by month, with average temperature

Bars are the average recreation visits in each month over 2022 to 2025. The line is the average temperature at Beaufort Wwtp, 3 miles from the park's reference point at 25 feet, station USC00380559 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals.

Annual visits, 2022 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	23,206	-0.7%
2024	23,378	-1.7%
2023	23,792	+30.3%
2022	18,262
2021	month missing
2020	month missing
2019	month missing
2018	month missing
2017	month missing
2016	month missing

Visitation at other parks

Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park Congaree National Park Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

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 USC00380559, 25 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.