Visitation · National Historic Site

Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site visitation by month and year

August is the busiest month at Saugus Iron Works, when the average temperature nearby is 72 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 28 degrees. An average August draws 6,285 visits where an average January draws 748. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 531.8 percent from 8,150 in 2019 to 51,495 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 Reading, 7 miles from the park's reference point at 110 feet, station USC00196783 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	51,495	-0.8%
2024	51,921	+25.7%
2023	41,314	+50.4%
2022	27,478	+34.1%
2021	20,487	+21.0%
2020	16,928	+107.7%
2019	8,150	-23.5%
2018	10,660	-13.0%
2017	12,256	+9.8%
2016	11,159	+19.6%

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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 USC00196783, 110 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.