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Russell Cave National Monument visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Russell Cave, when the average temperature nearby is 78 degrees. December is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 42 degrees. July runs about 2.6 times the visits of December. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 53.0 percent, from 16,642 in 2019 to 7,821 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 Bridgeport 5 NW, 1 mile from the park's reference point at 664 feet, station USC00011099 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, 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	7,821	-15.5%
2024	9,261	+6.7%
2023	8,678	-48.9%
2022	16,988	-24.1%
2021	22,393	+164.6%
2020	8,462	-49.2%
2019	16,642	-23.0%
2018	21,620	-11.3%
2017	24,377	-1.1%
2016	24,649	+26.9%

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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 USC00011099, 664 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.