Yellowstone Reports Strong October Visitor Numbers

Date: November 7, 2014
Contact: Al Nash , [phone]

It was another record visitation month for Yellowstone in October. A total of 194,804 recreational visitors came to Yellowstone last month, surpassing the previous October record of 189,072 set in 2010. The dramatic year-to-year difference in visitation figures between October 2014 and October 2013 reflects the 16 day park closure due to last October's federal government shutdown. There were 3,483,608 recreational visits to Yellowstone in first ten months of 2014, an increase of 10.26% over the same period in 2013. With two months left in the calendar year, 2014 is already the second highest visitation year on record, surpassing the 3,447,727 recreational visits recorded in 2012. The park's peak visitation year was 2010, when there were 3,640,184 recreational visits to Yellowstone.

	Recreational  Visits 2014	Recreational Visits 2013	Change
January	26,778	24,699	+8.42%
February	28,233	31,053	-9.08%
March	18,778	18,613	+0.89%
April	31,356	24,606	+27.43%
May	310,039	293,250	+5.73%
June	669,642	624,429	+7.24%
July	858,857	812,212	+5.74%
August	773,357	725,136	+6.65 %
September	571,764	557,925	+2.48 %
October	194,804	47,560	+309.59 %
Total Year-To-Date	3,483,608	3,159,485	+10.26 %

July is typically the peak visitation month in Yellowstone, followed in order by August, June, September, and May. Detailed park visitation information and additional information on how these statistics are calculated is available online at https://irma.nps.gov/Stats/Reports/Park. 

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