Yellowstone National Park hosted 958,706 recreation visits in July 2026, down 2% from July 2025, when 975,109 people visited the park.
Visitation in July 2026 showed an 11% decrease from July 2021, when the park hosted 1,080,767 visits, both part of Yellowstone’s record-breaking year with over 4.8 million recreation visits and the busiest July on record.
So far in 2026, the park has hosted 2,635,384 recreation visits, down 1% from 2025’s 2,666,031 recreation visits and down 1% from 2021’s 2,668,765 recreation visits.
The list below shows the year-to-date trend for recreation visits over the last several years.
People planning to visit Yellowstone National Park during the busy summer months are encouraged to plan ahead by browsing the park’s top things to know and downloading the free NPS app.
More data on park visitation, including how the park calculates these numbers, is available on the NPS Stats website.
Original reporting: Oil City News (Casper WY) — read the source article.
