Date: July 6, 2010
Contact: Al Nash, 307-344-2015
National Park Service
U.S. Department of the Interior
Yellowstone National Park
P.O. Box 168
Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 6, 2010 10-060
Al Nash (307) 344-2015
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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE
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Yellowstone Sets Visitation Record For June
Nearly 700,000 visitors came to Yellowstone National Park during June. It marks the second record June in a row, and the third record June out of the last four years. Visitor numbers this June are 100,000 higher than those recorded in June 2008.
Recreational Visitors 2010 2009 Change
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January 25,595 24,770 + 3.3 %
February 29,108 28,355 + 2.7 %
March 21,028 17,317 + 21.4 %
April 32,763 24,831 + 31.9 %
May 250,445 261,763 - 4.3 %
June 694,841 643,844 + 7.9 %
Total Year-To-Date 1,053,780 1,000,880 + 5.3 %
Recreational Visitors June Year to Year Change
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2010 694,841 + 7.9 %
2009 643,844 + 8.5 %
2008 593,405 - 2.7 %
2007 609,606 + 9.4 %
2006 557,213 - 0.5 %
2005 560,014
Visitor numbers were up at all four entrances when compared to year-ago levels, with double-digit increases reported through the East and Northeast Entrances.
The West Entrance remains the park’s busiest, with over 280,000 visitors recorded this June, compared to just over 261,000 a year ago.
Visitation to the park for the first six months of the year is over the one million mark, up 5.3 percent over the same period a year ago.
July is typically the park’s peak visitation month, followed by August, June, September, and May.
Yellowstone hosted a record number of visitors in 2009. Nearly 3.3 million people visited the world’s first national park last year, up 7.5% from 2008 and up 4.6% from the previous record of 3.15 million visitors set in 2007.
Detailed park visitation information is available online at http://www.nature.nps.gov/stats/.
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