Yellowstone sets visitation record for June
by Yellowstone National Park
July 12, 2010
Nearly 700,000 visitors came to Yellowstone National Park during June. It marks the second record June in a row, and the third record June out of the last four years. Visitor numbers this June are 100,000 higher than those recorded in June 2008.
Recreational Visitors
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January: (2010) 25,595 (2009) 24,770 (Change) + 3.3 %
February: (2010) 29,108 (2009) 28,355 (Change) + 2.7 %
March: (2010) 21,028 (2009) 17,317 (Change) + 21.4 %
April: (2010) 32,763 (2009) 24,831 (Change) + 31.9 %
May: (2010) 250,445 (2009) 261,763 (Change) - 4.3 %
June: (2010) 694,841 (2009) 643,844 (Change) + 7.9 %
Total Year-To-Date: (2010) 1,053,780 (2009) 1,000,880 (Change) + 5.3 %
June 2010 Recreational Visitors
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2010: 694,841, Year to Year Change: + 7.9 %
2009: 643,844, Year to Year Change: + 8.5 %
2008: 593,405, Year to Year Change: - 2.7 %
2007: 609,606, Year to Year Change: + 9.4 %
2006: 557,213, Year to Year Change: - 0.5 %
2005: 560,014
Visitor numbers were up at all four entrances when compared to year-ago levels, with double-digit increases reported through the East and Northeast Entrances.
The West Entrance remains the park’s busiest, with over 280,000 visitors recorded this June, compared to just over 261,000 a year ago.
Visitation to the park for the first six months of the year is over the one million mark, up 5.3 percent over the same period a year ago.
July is typically the park’s peak visitation month, followed by August, June, September, and May.
Yellowstone hosted a record number of visitors in 2009. Nearly 3.3 million people visited the world’s first national park last year, up 7.5% from 2008 and up 4.6% from the previous record of 3.15 million visitors set in 2007.
Detailed park visitation information is available online at http://www.nature.nps.gov/stats/.
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