Visitation · National Military Park

Vicksburg National Military Park visitation by month and year

May is the busiest month at Vicksburg, when the average temperature nearby is 74 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 48 degrees. May runs about 2.8 times the visits of January. The warmest month is July, a little off the peak. Annual visits fell 28.8 percent, from 576,456 in 2019 to 410,300 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 Vicksburg City, 2 miles from the park's reference point at 80 feet, station USC00229230 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain from the same station, which records under an inch of snow a year.

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	410,300	+1.7%
2024	403,332	+17.6%
2023	342,984	-16.4%
2022	410,487	+4.7%
2021	391,947	+122.4%
2020	176,236	-69.4%
2019	576,456	+21.5%
2018	474,387	-0.1%
2017	475,074	-6.6%
2016	508,914	-4.4%

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 USC00229230, 80 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.