National parks

How many people visit Voyageurs National Park?

Voyageurs National Park had 206,326 recreation visits in 2025, the 53rd most of the 63 national parks. Its busiest year since 1979 was 1980, with 266,935 visits. August and July were its busiest months in 2025, between them 41% of the year's visits.

Visits in 2025

206,326

Down 13% from 238,313 in 2015

Among national parks

53rd

most visited of 63

Busiest month of 2025

August

42,785 visits

Recreation visits to Voyageurs each year

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Recreation visits to Voyageurs each month of 2025

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The numbers

Recreation visits each year, newest first, and each month of 2025.

Recreation visits to Voyageurs National Park each year
Year Visits
2025 206,326
2024 199,030
2023 220,825
2022 221,434
2021 243,042
2020 263,091
2019 232,974
2018 239,656
2017 237,250
2016 241,912
2015 238,313
2014 239,160
2013 233,390
2012 214,841
2011 177,184
2010 253,891
2009 222,429
2008 221,585
2007 220,650
2006 231,875
2005 234,577
2004 249,041
2003 234,231
2002 238,227
2001 243,374
2000 227,371
1999 228,898
1998 231,958
1997 223,418
1996 246,588
1995 210,938
1994 224,181
1993 228,143
1992 227,498
1991 221,857
1990 223,554
1989 209,626
1988 223,735
1987 201,727
1986 172,137
1985 183,984
1984 154,723
1983 146,454
1982 143,724
1981 257,490
1980 266,935
1979 195,277
Recreation visits to Voyageurs National Park each month of 2025
Month of 2025 Visits
January 2,753
February 8,917
March 4,871
April 5
May 27,316
June 40,931
July 42,178
August 42,785
September 22,350
October 11,535
November 2,372
December 313

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.