Visitation · National Recreation Area

Whiskeytown National Recreation Area visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Whiskeytown, when the average temperature nearby is 80 degrees. December is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 45 degrees. July runs about 7.2 times the visits of December. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 11.2 percent from 687,159 in 2019 to 763,798 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 Redding 12 WNW, 3 miles from the park's reference point at 1,418 feet, station USW00004222 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	763,798	-6.0%
2024	812,244	-11.7%
2023	920,311	-38.9%
2022	1,505,134	+84.3%
2021	816,608	+1.4%
2020	805,295	+17.2%
2019	687,159	+17.3%
2018	585,768	-29.6%
2017	832,063	-5.0%
2016	875,565	+3.8%

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 USW00004222, 1,418 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.