Date: September 5, 2008
Contact: Al Nash or Stacy Vallie, (307) 344-2015
After a record June, Yellowstone National Park visitation remained strong in July and August, and remains on a near record pace for all of 2008.
The park recorded 735,572 recreational visits in August. That’s up almost 25,000 visitors from the previous August. The largest percentage increase in August was recorded through the East Entrance, up 13-point-7 percent from 2007.
There were 826,728 recreational visitors to the park in July, up half a percent from the same period in 2007.
The park recorded 612,095 recreational visits in June 2008, an all time record for the month.
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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK RECREATIONAL VISITS
June thru Jan. thru
June July August August August
2008 612,095 826,728 735,572 2,174,395 2,509,947
2007 609,606 822,733 710,781 2,143,160 2,511,790
Change + 0.4% + 0.5% + 3.5% + 1.4% - 0.1%
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Overall, visitation for the three summer months was up over 30-thousand visitors compared to the same period last year.
For the first eight months of this calendar year, the park received 2,509,947 recreational visitors, less than 2,000 fewer visitors than were recorded during the same period in 2007.
Yellowstone had a record 3,151,342 visitors in 2007. The bulk of the park’s visitation occurs May through September.
The park does not regularly conduct the kind of social science research necessary to break out or explain visitation changes or trends.
Detailed visitor information figures are available online at http://www.nature.nps.gov/stats/.
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