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Wind Cave National Park visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Wind Cave, when the average temperature nearby is 71 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 28 degrees. An average July draws 119,892 visits where an average February draws 11,211. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 1.5 percent, from 615,350 in 2019 to 606,258 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 Wind Cave, 3 miles from the park's reference point at 4,155 feet, station USC00399347 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain and snow from the same station, also 1991 to 2020 averages.

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	606,258	+23.9%
2024	489,399	-17.4%
2023	592,459	-2.5%
2022	607,418	-14.3%
2021	709,001	+58.1%
2020	448,405	-27.1%
2019	615,350	-6.3%
2018	656,397	+5.9%
2017	619,924	+0.4%
2016	617,377	+0.8%

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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 USC00399347, 4,155 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.