Yellowstone National Park hosted 852,435 recreation visits in September 2024. This is a 2% increase from September 2023 (838,458 recreational visits). This September’s visitation showed a 3% decrease from September 2021 (882,078 recreation visits).
So far in 2024, the park has hosted 4,349,689 recreation visits, up 5% from 2023 (4,147,382 recreation visits), and down 3% from 2021 (4,472,687 recreation visits).
The list below shows the year-to-date trend for recreation visits over the last several years (through September):
2024 – 4,349,689
2023 – 4,147,382
2022 – 3,005,194 (The park was closed June 13 through June 21 due to the historic flood event. Three entrances opened on June 22.)
2021 – 4,472,687
2020 – 3,393,642 (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 – 3,807,815
This year’s individual overnight stays in RVs and tents were up from last year with 507,720 so far in 2024 versus 457,815 last year.
More data on park visitation, including how data is gathered, is available on the NPS Stats website.
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It’s still way too over crowded for us.
What Bill said! 🙂 Have a great day and safe travels! 🙂