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Yellowstone visitation statistics for September 2024

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People at Norris Geyser Museum

NPS / Jacob W. Frank

News Release Date: October 9, 2024
Contact: Morgan Warthin, [phone]

MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – 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 an 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
    
More data on park visitation, including how we calculate these numbers, is available on the NPS Stats website.  

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