Yellowstone Visits Increased in August 2023
Written by Jessi Entel on September 18, 2023
Yellowstone National Park hosted 846,389 recreation visits in August 2023, a 45% increase from August 2022 and a 3% increase from August 2019.
August 2023 visitations decreased compared to July 2023, as there was 969,692 recreation visits in July.
Year-to-date, the park has had 3,313,244 recreation visits. Below is a list of statistics on yearly Yellowstone visits over the last five years.
2023 – 3,313,244
2022 – 2,437,607 (The park was closed June 13 through June 21. Three entrances opened June 22.)
2021 – 3,590,609
2020 – 2,556,528 (The park was closed May 1 through May 17. Two entrances opened May 18 and the remaining three opened June 1.)
2019 – 3,114,697
2018 – 3,136,241
It is important to note that park officials compare 2023 visitation to 2019 visitation since 2019 was pre-COVID and the subsequent years until 2023 included unusual visitation trends due to COVID (2020, 2021) and the historic flood event in 2022 that closed the park for about two weeks in June.
For more information on park visitation data, including how these numbers are calculated, please visit the National Park Service stats website.
