{"id":136857,"date":"2025-09-06T10:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T10:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/136857\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T10:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T10:26:07","slug":"yellowstone-sees-slight-rise-in-august-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/136857\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellowstone sees slight rise in August visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (CBS2) \u2014 If you visited Yellowstone National Park in August, you certainly weren’t alone.<\/p>\n

Yellowstone National Park experienced a slight uptick in visitors this August, with 881,936 recreation visits recorded. This marks a 2% increase from August 2024, which saw 868,259 visits. However, this year’s August visitation was still 4% lower than the record-breaking August of 2021, when 921,844 visitors flocked to the park.<\/p>\n

In 2025, Yellowstone has welcomed 3,547,967 recreation visits so far, according to the National Park Service<\/a>, reflecting a 2% rise from the same period in 2024, which had 3,494,350 visits. Despite this increase, the current year’s numbers are down 1% from 2021, when the park recorded 3,590,609 visits by the end of August.<\/p>\n

The park’s visitation trends over recent years show fluctuations due to various factors, including closures. In 2022, the park was closed for several days in June due to a historic flood event, resulting in 2,437,607 visits by August. In 2020, the park faced closures from March to May due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to 2,556,528 visits by the end of August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (CBS2) \u2014 If you visited Yellowstone National Park in August, you certainly weren’t alone.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[85710,8200,85713,23992,13490,85711,79,85712,201,10759],"class_list":["post-136857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-august-visitors","tag-covid-19-pandemic","tag-historic-flood","tag-increase","tag-national-park-service","tag-recreation-visits","tag-science","tag-visitation-trends","tag-wildlife","tag-yellowstone-national-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}