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The numbers are in: August 2021 Yellowstone visitation is another record month, as almost a million people visit America’s first national park.

With both Yellowstone and Grand Teton visitation records in the books for July 2021, you can expect more calls for limitations on access to popular areas within the two national parks.

The numbers are in: May 2021 Yellowstone visitation set an all-time record for the month, as National Park Service officials tallied 658,513 recreational visits this year.

Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park visitation was up in April 2021 when compared to April 2019, as the interest in park visitation began early this year.

Yellowstone visitation in June 2020 was down some 32 percent from June 2019 visitation numbers, as the COVID-19 pandemic is clearly keeping many folks at home during the high summer season.

Yes, the stories about lines and traffic jams created by Yellowstone crowds are indeed true, as the National Park Service tallied 810,884 visits in June 2018, a slight increase over last year (803,652 visits) and below June 2016 (838,316 visits) numbers, which remains the busiest June ever in Yellowstone.

2017 marked the second busiest year on record for Yellowstone National Park, with nearly 4.2 million visits recorded.

September 2017 visitation to Yellowstone National Park was perceptibly lower than September 2016, which was the busiest on record for the park.

Yellowstone National Park saw the second busiest June on record with nearly one-and-a-half million visitors to the park recorded.

May 2017 was the second busiest May on record in Yellowstone National Park, with nearly 420,000 visitors reported.