YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — Visitation statistics for June in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) have been released, and the park is still on pace for a record-breaking year.
A Thursday press release from YNP states that the park saw 903,025 recreation visits in the month of June, which is down 3% from June 2025. Last year, 928,250 people visited the park in June. This year’s June visitation is down 4% from June 2021 (938,845 visits), which was during the park’s record-setting year.
However, the 1,676,678 visits that the park has seen from January through June show that visitation is up 6% over 2021 (1,587,998 visits year-to-date). This year’s numbers are down 1% from last year through June, when the park hosted 1,690,922 recreation visits. Yellowstone’s busiest year in 2021 recorded over 4.8 million visits.
See the list below for year-to-date trends in recreation visits through June over the years:
- 2026 – 1,676,678
- 2025 – 1,690,922
- 2024 – 1,633,739
- 2023 – 1,492,843
- 2022 – 1,258,834 (The park was closed June 13 through June 21 due to a historic flood event. Three entrances opened on June 22.)
- 2021 – 1,587,998
