Visitation · Scenic & Recreational River

Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Upper Delaware, when the average temperature nearby is 70 degrees. December is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 29 degrees. An average July draws 76,230 visits where an average December draws 5,978. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 76.4 percent from 215,537 in 2019 to 380,245 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 Milanville, 2 miles from the park's reference point at 760 feet, station USC00365738 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, 1980 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	380,245	+0.8%
2024	377,061	+15.2%
2023	327,266	+20.9%
2022	270,718	+0.3%
2021	269,810	+7.8%
2020	250,198	+16.1%
2019	215,537	-2.5%
2018	220,966	-12.8%
2017	253,537	-4.1%
2016	264,362	+8.7%

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 USC00365738, 760 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.