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Yellowstone National Park hosted 454,929 recreation visits in May, a 13% decrease from the year before (523,680 recreation visits), which was Yellowstone National Park’s busiest May on record. …
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Yellowstone National Park hosted 454,929 recreation visits in May, a 13% decrease from the year before (523,680 recreation visits), which was Yellowstone National Park’s busiest May on record. According to a park press release, this May’s visitation showed a 5% increase from May 2019* (434,385 recreation visits).
So far in 2023, the park has hosted 645,646 recreation visits, down 12% from 2022 (733,471), and up 12% from 2019 (576,776 recreation visits).
Summer is Yellowstone’s busiest season and millions of people visit the park in June, July and August.
Learn more about these visitation statistics, including how the numbers are calculated, visit go.nps.gov/23019.
*The park compares 2023 visitation to 2019 visitation since 2019 was pre-COVID and the subsequent years until 2023 included unusual visitation trends (2020, 2021), as well as the historic flood event in 2022 that closed the park for two weeks in June.
