National Park Service
U.S. Department of the Interior
Yellowstone National Park
P.O. Box 168
Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190
July 11, 2014 14-046
Al Nash or Dan Hottle
(307) 344-2015
YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE
Yellowstone Reports Strong June Visitation
Visitation to Yellowstone National Park for the month of June is up more than 7 percent compared to the previous year. Visitation for the first six months of the 2014 is over the one million mark.
There were 669,642 recreational visits to Yellowstone in June and a total of 1,084,827 for the first six months of 2014. That compares to 624,429 recreational visits for June 2013 and 1,016,651 recreational visits for January through June 2013.
Recreational Visits 2014
Recreational Visits 2013
Change
January
26,778
24,699
+ 8.42%
February
28,233
31,053
- 9.08%
March
18,778
18,613
+ 0.89%
April
31,356
24,606
+27.43%
May
310,039
293,250
+ 5.73%
June
669,642
624,429
+ 7.24%
Total
1,084,827
1,016,651
+ 6.71%
Visitation at each of the park’s five entrances for the month of June and for the first half of 2014 is up compared to 2013 levels. The park’s west entrance recorded the most significant increase, up over twelve and half percent in June compared to the previous year.
The highest percentage growth in visitation is in the number of bus passengers, with June bus passenger numbers up almost 25 percent at the North entrance, nearly 34 percent at the West Entrance, and up almost 39 percent at the South entrance compared to June 2013.
Visitation statistics are calculated by taking the actual number of wheeled vehicles entering the park gates and using a person-per-vehicle multiplier to calculate the number of monthly recreational visits.
July is typically the park’s peak visitation month, followed in order by August, June, September, and May.
Detailed park visitation information and additional information on how these statistics are calculated is available online at https://irma.nps.gov/Stats/Reports/Park.
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Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
