Yellowstone National Park Sees Increase In Number Of Visitors
Written by Mac Watson on August 8, 2024
Yellowstone National Park is announcing that the park has hosted 992,352 recreation visits in July 2024, which is up 2% from July 2023 (969,692 recreation visits).
This July’s visitation showed an 8% decrease from July 2021 (1,080,767 recreation visits).
So far in 2024, the park has hosted 2,626,091 recreation visits, up 7% from 2023 (2,462,535 recreation visits), and down 2% from 2021 (2,668,765 recreation visits).
The list below shows the year-to-date trend for recreation visits over the last several years (through July):
2024 – 2,626,091
2023 – 2,462,535
2022 – 1,855,396 (The park was closed June 13 thru June 21 due to the historic flood event. Three entrances opened on June 22.)
2021 – 2,668,765
2020 – 1,674,699 (The park was closed March 24 thru May 17 due to COVID. Two entrances opened on May 18 and the remaining three opened on June 1.)
2019 – 2,294,691
Summer is Yellowstone’s busiest season and millions of people visit the park in June, July and August.
The park says if tourists are still coming to see the natural beauty and majesty of America’s first national park, please plan ahead and protect yourself by taking the Yellowstone Pledge.
More data on park visitation, including how we calculate these numbers, is available on the NPS Stats website.
