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Theodore Roosevelt National Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Theodore Roosevelt, when the average temperature nearby is 70 degrees. December is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 19 degrees. An average July draws 160,797 visits where an average December draws 1,983. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 5.5 percent from 691,658 in 2019 to 729,893 in 2025.

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Visits by month, with average temperature

Bars are the average recreation visits in each month over 2021 to 2025. The line is the average temperature at Fairfield, 10 miles from the park's reference point at 2,750 feet, station USC00322809 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals.

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	729,893	-0.4%
2024	732,951	-1.9%
2023	746,862	+11.7%
2022	668,679	-16.0%
2021	796,085	+44.4%
2020	551,303	-20.3%
2019	691,658	-7.7%
2018	749,389	+5.8%
2017	708,003	-6.1%
2016	753,880	+30.0%

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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 normals are the 1991 to 2020 monthly averages published by NOAA NCEI for station USC00322809, 2,750 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.