Visits to Yellowstone National Park tick up this year compared to last

Yellowstone National Park hosted 871,163 recreation visits in August 2024, up 3% from August 2023 (846,389 recreation visits), the park said Wednesday in a news release.

This August’s visitation showed an 5% decrease from August 2021 (921,844 recreation visits).

So far in 2024, the park has hosted 3,497,254 recreation visits, up 6% from 2023 (3,308,924 recreation visits), and down 3% from 2021 (3,590,609 recreation visits).

Yellowstone provided the list below of the year-to-date trend for recreation visits over the last several years (through August):

2024 – 3,497,254

2023 – 3,308,924

2022 – 2,437,607 (The park was closed June 13 through June 21 due to the historic flood event. Three entrances opened on June 22.)

2021 – 3,590,609

2020 – 2,556,528 (The park was closed March 24 through May 17 due to COVID-19. Two entrances opened on May 18 and the remaining three opened on June 1.)

2019 – 3,114,697

More data on park visitation, including how the park calculates these numbers, is available on the NPS Stats website.