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Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site visitation by month and year

May is the busiest month at Sand Creek Massacre, when the average temperature nearby is 61 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 29 degrees. May runs about 6.4 times the visits of January. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits fell 23.9 percent, from 5,701 in 2019 to 4,338 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 Sheridan Lake, 14 miles from the park's reference point at 4,070 feet, station USC00057582 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, 2010 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	4,338	-32.2%
2024	6,401	+9.3%
2023	5,855	+22.7%
2022	4,772	-23.0%
2021	6,201	+47.1%
2020	4,215	-26.1%
2019	5,701	-5.1%
2018	6,006	-8.1%
2017	6,535	-4.6%
2016	6,847	+16.3%

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 USC00057582, 4,070 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.