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Voyageurs National Park visitation by month and year

August is the busiest month at Voyageurs, when the average temperature nearby is 63 degrees. April is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 36 degrees. An average August draws 48,459 visits where an average April draws 157. The peak falls with the warmth, though April is not the coldest month. Annual visits fell 11.4 percent, from 232,974 in 2019 to 206,326 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 Kabetogama, 11 miles from the park's reference point at 1,200 feet, station USC00214191 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, 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	206,326	+3.7%
2024	199,030	-9.9%
2023	220,825	-0.3%
2022	221,434	-8.9%
2021	243,042	-7.6%
2020	263,091	+12.9%
2019	232,974	-2.8%
2018	239,656	+1.0%
2017	237,250	-1.9%
2016	241,912	+1.5%

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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 USC00214191, 1,200 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.