YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — Yellowstone National Park (YNP) has shared its visitation statistics for this past October, hosting 346,025 recreation visits. This is a 16% increase from the 299,127 recreational visits in October 2023.
Although October 2024 showed a two percent decrease from October 2021’s historic 4,789,349 visits, so far in 2024 the Park has seen a 6% increase in visits compared to last year. According to the press release, YNP hosted 4,692,810 recreation visits this year through October; 2023 saw 4,446,509 visits.
Comparatively, 2024 total recreation visits thus far are still down two percent from 2021, which hosted 4,789,349 visits.
The list below shows the year-to-date trend for recreation visits over the last five years plus this year, through October:
- 2024: 4,692,810
- 2023: 4,446,509
- 2022: 3,241,761 (The park was closed June 13 through June 21 due to the historic flood event. Three entrances opened on June 22.)
- 2021: 4,789,349
- 2020: 3,753,531 (The park was closed March 24 through May 17 due to COVID. Two entrances opened on May 18 and the remaining three opened on June 1.)
- 2019: 3,979,154
Most roads in Yellowstone closed to vehicle traffic on Nov. 1 to prepare for the winter season. Snowmobile and snowcoach travel will begin on Sunday, Dec. 15.
More data on Park visitation, including how YNP calculates these numbers, is available on the NPS Stats website.
