YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — Visitation statistics for July in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) have been released.
YNP announced via press release that the park hosted 975,109 recreation visits in the month of July, down 2% from last July, which saw 992,352 visits. This July’s visitation slumped 10% from July of 2021 (1,080,767 visits) — the park’s record-breaking year that saw over 4.8 million visitors.
Through July this year, the park has hosted 2,666,031 people, which is up 1.5% from January through July of last year (2,626,091 visits) and down only 0.1% from those same months in the record year of 2021 (2,668,765 visitors).
See the list below for year-to-date trends in recreation visits through June over the years:
- 2025 — 2,666,031
- 2024 — 2,626,091
- 2023 — 2,462,535
- 2022 — 1,855,396 (The park was closed June 13 through 21 due to a historic flood event. Three entrances opened on June 22.)
- 2021 — 2,668,765
- 2020 — 1,674,699 (The park was closed March 24 through May 17 due to COVID-19. Two entrances opened on May 18, and the remaining three opened on June 1.)
To learn more about park visitation data and how the numbers are calculated, visit the NPS Stats website.
