MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – Yellowstone National Park hosted 346,025 recreation visits in October 2024. This is a 16% increase from October 2023 (299,127 recreational visits). This October’s visitation showed a 9% increase from October 2021 (316,662 recreation visits).

So far in 2024, the park has hosted 4,692,810 recreation visits, up 6% from 2023 (4,446,509 recreation visits), and down 2% from 2021 (4,789,349 recreation visits).

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

2024 – 4,692,810
2023 – 4,446,509
2022 – 3,241,761 (The park was closed June 13 through June 21 due to the historic flood event. Three entrances opened on June 22.)  
2021 – 4,789,349
2020 – 3,753,531 (The park was closed March 24 through May 17 due to COVID. Two entrances opened on May 18 and the remaining three opened on June 1.)  
2019 – 3,979,154

Most roads in Yellowstone closed to vehicle traffic at the end of October in preparation for the winter season and snowmobile and snowcoach travel, which will begin Dec. 15.

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