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Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Wrangell - St Elias, when the average temperature nearby is 57 degrees. January is the quietest, and the average temperature then is -2 degrees. An average July draws 25,877 visits where an average January draws 25. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits rose 46.1 percent from 74,518 in 2019 to 108,840 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 Mccarthy 3 SW, 13 miles from the park's reference point at 1,250 feet, station USC00505757 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, 1982 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	108,840	+33.3%
2024	81,670	+4.3%
2023	78,305	+20.0%
2022	65,236	+30.0%
2021	50,189	+201.3%
2020	16,655	-77.6%
2019	74,518	-6.2%
2018	79,450	+16.3%
2017	68,292	-13.6%
2016	79,047	-1.6%

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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 USC00505757, 1,250 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.