National parks
How many people visit Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve?
Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve had 14,923 recreation visits in 2025, the 62nd most of the 63 national parks. That was its busiest year since 1982. July and August were its busiest months in 2025, between them 58% of the year's visits.
Visits in 2025
14,923
Up 39% from 10,745 in 2015
Among national parks
62nd
most visited of 63
Busiest month of 2025
July
4,966 visits
Recreation visits to Gates of the Arctic each year
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Recreation visits to Gates of the Arctic each month of 2025
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The numbers
Recreation visits each year, newest first, and each month of 2025.
| Year | Visits |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 14,923 |
| 2024 | 11,907 |
| 2023 | 11,045 |
| 2022 | 9,457 |
| 2021 | 7,362 |
| 2020 | 2,872 |
| 2019 | 10,518 |
| 2018 | 9,591 |
| 2017 | 11,177 |
| 2016 | 10,047 |
| 2015 | 10,745 |
| 2014 | 12,669 |
| 2013 | 11,012 |
| 2012 | 10,899 |
| 2011 | 11,623 |
| 2010 | 10,840 |
| 2009 | 9,975 |
| 2008 | 11,397 |
| 2007 | 10,942 |
| 2006 | 9,982 |
| 2005 | 9,459 |
| 2004 | 10,282 |
| 2003 | 5,075 |
| 2002 | 6,648 |
| 2001 | 4,505 |
| 2000 | 11,278 |
| 1999 | 8,166 |
| 1998 | 8,266 |
| 1997 | 6,949 |
| 1996 | 6,448 |
| 1995 | 7,074 |
| 1994 | 1,726 |
| 1993 | 2,245 |
| 1992 | 2,116 |
| 1991 | 1,154 |
| 1990 | 1,010 |
| 1989 | 822 |
| 1988 | 1,258 |
| 1987 | 1,060 |
| 1986 | 2,801 |
| 1985 | 1,381 |
| 1984 | 2,440 |
| 1983 | 2,138 |
| 1982 | 1,381 |
| Month of 2025 | Visits |
|---|---|
| January | 0 |
| February | 0 |
| March | 0 |
| April | 0 |
| May | 925 |
| June | 3,464 |
| July | 4,966 |
| August | 3,631 |
| September | 1,937 |
| October | 0 |
| November | 0 |
| December | 0 |
Source and notes
National Park Service, Visitor Use Statistics (Public domain (U.S. government work); source National Park Service).
A recreation visit is one person entering the park for recreation on one day, estimated by the park from traffic counters and sampling; people passing through for work or on a through road aren't counted. Monthly counts begin in 1979 or the park's first year on record, and include the years before it became a national park, when it may have been, say, a national monument. A sudden jump or drop can be a change in how the park counts, and closures (the 2020 pandemic, storms, fires, government shutdowns) show as dips. NPS publishes a year early the next year.