Visitation · National Historic Site

Steamtown National Historic Site visitation by month and year

August is the busiest month at Steamtown, when the average temperature nearby is 72 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 28 degrees. An average August draws 10,411 visits where an average January draws 1,222. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 42.3 percent, from 105,403 in 2019 to 60,844 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 Wilkes-Barre Intl AP, 6 miles from the park's reference point at 930 feet, station USW00014777 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, 1989 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	60,844	+1.0%
2024	60,243	+3.2%
2023	58,403	-18.0%
2022	71,232	+30.9%
2021	54,433	+99.2%
2020	27,322	-74.1%
2019	105,403	+7.6%
2018	97,950	-5.8%
2017	103,956	+4.3%
2016	99,660	+11.2%

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 USW00014777, 930 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.