Visitation · Wild & Scenic River

Rio Grande Wild & Scenic River visitation by month and year

March is the busiest month at Rio Grande, when the average temperature nearby is 62 degrees. August is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 84 degrees. The peak sits well away from the warmest month, which is July. Annual visits fell 63.0 percent, from 324 in 2019 to 120 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 Dryden Terrell Co AP, 13 miles from the park's reference point at 2,322 feet, station USW00003032 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, 1985 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	120	-30.2%
2024	172	-42.7%
2023	300	+14.1%
2022	263	-4.4%
2021	275	+118.3%
2020	126	-61.1%
2019	324	-1.8%
2018	330	-17.3%
2017	399	-13.8%
2016	463	+285.8%

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 USW00003032, 2,322 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.