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Yellowstone Park Entrance sign and Sepulcher Mountain
Credit: NPS / Jacob W. Frank

July 10, 2025 - MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – Yellowstone National Park hosted 928,250 recreation visits in June 2025, up 1% from June 2024 (914,612 recreation visits).

This June’s visitation showed a 1% decrease from June 2021 (938,845 recreation visits). The park’s record-breaking year was 2021 with over 4.8 million recreation visits.

So far in 2025, the park has hosted 1,690,922 recreation visits, up 4% from 2024 (1,633,739 recreation visits), and up 6% from 2021 (1,587,998 recreation visits).

The list below shows the year-to-date trend for recreation visits over the last several years (through June):

2025 – 1,690,922
2024 – 1,633,739
2023 – 1,492,843
2022 – 1,258,834 (The park was closed June 13 through June 21 due to the historic flood event. Three entrances opened on June 22.)
2021 – 1,587,998
2020 –  719,054 (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.)

Visiting Yellowstone National Park during the busy summer months? Plan ahead by browsing our top things to know and downloading the free NPS app. Protect yourself and the park by taking the Yellowstone Pledge, act responsibly and safely, and set a good example for others.

More data on park visitation, including how we calculate these numbers, is available on the NPS Stats website.
Source: NPS
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