Statistical Abstract: 2025

Ziesler, Pamela

doi:10.36967/2318258

In the pages that follow, a series of tables and figures display visitor use statistics for calendar year 2025. By documenting visits, hours, and overnight stays across the National Park System, the National Park Service (NPS) Statistical Abstract offers a historical record of visitor use in parks and provides NPS staff and partners with a useful tool for effective management and planning. In 2025, 406 of the 433 National Park System units collected and reported visitor use statistics. The remainder were unable to do so for a variety of reasons; some are administered by another agency or under non-Federal land ownership, and some are new parks that lack staff and facilities to manage visitor use statistics. For more information see the section titled “Related and Non-Reporting Areas.” The responsibility for compiling and summarizing visitor use statistics resides with the Socioeconomics and Resource Recovery Division in the Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Directorate. The Division relies on NPS field personnel to count, record, and report visitor use. This system of collecting and summarizing monthly visitor use data is combined with continuous review and assessment of park visitor use estimation procedures to promote consistency and accuracy of data. Detailed instructions for the units that collect data, monthly visitation summaries, and reports displaying trends in park visitation are available on the NPS Visitor Use Statistics website (https://irma.nps.gov/Stats/). The Definitions section below and the program website (https://www.nps.gov/subjects/socialscience/visitor-use-statistics.htm) provide additional information on how the National Park Service collects and estimates visitor use.

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