Visitation up in Yellowstone National Park
August visitation 805,173 visitors - second highest monthly visitation level ever recorded
by Yellowstone National Park
September 12, 2011
Monthly visitation to Yellowstone National Park in August topped the 800-thousand mark for only the second time in the park’s history.
The park recorded 805,173 recreational visitors in August 2011. That is the second highest monthly visitation level ever recorded. However, it is down 5.8-percent from the 854,837 visitors to the park in August 2010.
Recreational Visitors in August, 2011
2011: 805,173 Year-to-Year Change: - 5.8 %
2010: 854,837 Year-to-Year Change: + 13.5 %
2009: 752,983 Year-to-Year Change: + 3.0 %
2008: 731,063 Year-to-Year Change: + 3.0 %
2007: 710,781 Year-to-Year Change: + 11.8 %
2006: 635,666
Recreational Visitors for 2011, 2010 and 2009:
June:
2011: 634,316
2010: 694,841
2009: 643,844
July:
2011: 906,935
2010: 957,785
2009: 900,515
August:
2011: 805,173
2010: 854,837
2009: 752,983
Summer Months:
2011: 2,346,424
2010: 2,507,463
2009: 2,297,342
Total Year-To-Date:
2011: 2,653,832
2010: 2,866,401
2009: 2,654,378
The number of recreational visitors entering Yellowstone this summer is off compared to the previous year, but up slightly compared to 2009. Park visitation for the first eight months of the year is also down compared to the record year of 2010, but nearly equal to visitation levels recorded in 2009.
July is typically the park’s peak visitation month, followed by August, June, September, and May.
Yellowstone hosted a record number of visitors in 2010. Over 3.64 million people visited the world’s first national park last year, up 10.55 percent over 2009, which was itself a record year.
Detailed park visitation information is available online at
http://www.nature.nps.gov/stats/.
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