Visitation · National Scenic Riverway

Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Saint Croix, when the average temperature nearby is 70 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 13 degrees. An average July draws 197,249 visits where an average January draws 506. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 33.5 percent from 638,258 in 2019 to 852,296 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 Luck, 11 miles from the park's reference point at 1,220 feet, station USC00474894 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain and snow from the same station, also 1991 to 2020 averages.

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	852,296	-5.4%
2024	900,828	+11.7%
2023	806,257	-3.3%
2022	833,773	+13.9%
2021	732,100	-8.3%
2020	798,622	+25.1%
2019	638,258	-11.9%
2018	724,644	-6.2%
2017	772,475	+9.1%
2016	708,258	+13.7%

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, precipitation and snowfall normals are the 1991 to 2020 monthly averages published by NOAA NCEI for station USC00474894, 1,220 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.