Yellowstone September 2012 Visitation

Date: October 4, 2012

National Park Service
U.S. Department of the Interior

Yellowstone National Park
P.O. Box 168
Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190
   
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 4, 2012     12-084    

Al Nash or Dan Hottle
[phone]
[e-mail]

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Yellowstone September 2012 Visitation

Visitation to Yellowstone National Park for September was down slightly compared to last year's levels. The park recorded 527,610 recreational visitors in September 2012, down 1.6 percent from last year. Despite the decline, it was still the third highest September visitation ever recorded.

Recreational Visitors	September	Year-to-Year Change
2012	527,610	-1.63%
2011	536,349	-2.6%
2010	550,504	+12.5%
2009	489,438	+11.9%
2008	437,552	-5.7%
2007	463,994

The number of recreational visitors entering Yellowstone for the first nine months of the calendar year is up compared to 2011. The park recorded 3,238,128 recreational visitors from January through September 2012, a 1.5 percent year-to-year increase.

Recreational Visitors	2012	2011	Change
January	24,766	24,517	+1.0%
February	27,752	28,174	-1.5%
March	20,248	18,728	+8.1%
April	29,056	28,147	+3.2%
May	268,251	207,842	+29.1%
June	671,825	634,316	+5.9%
July	888,335	906,935	-2.1%
August	780,286	805,173	-3.1%
September	527,610	536,349	-1.63%
Total Year-To-Date	3,238,128	3,190,181	+1.5%

With three months left in the calendar year, more recreational visits to Yellowstone have been recorded this year than in all of 2007, which was previously the fourth highest visitation year on record.

July is typically the park's peak visitation month, followed by August, June, September, and May.

Detailed park visitation information is available online at https://irma.nps.gov/Stats/.

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