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Scotts Bluff National Monument visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Scotts Bluff, when the average temperature nearby is 74 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 28 degrees. July runs about 7.2 times the visits of January. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 9.9 percent from 166,007 in 2019 to 182,392 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 Scottsbluff 1E, 4 miles from the park's reference point at 3,909 feet, station USC00257667 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	182,392	-0.8%
2024	183,915	+5.5%
2023	174,267	-0.2%
2022	174,651	-10.0%
2021	194,027	+6.7%
2020	181,900	+9.6%
2019	166,007	+16.9%
2018	142,028	-6.9%
2017	152,560	+17.3%
2016	130,085	-0.8%

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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 USC00257667, 3,909 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.