Crowds by month
Compare the full year’s monthly recreation visits and normal weather.
Bryce Canyon visitation by year
47 years of annual recreation visits, 1979–2025. The 2025 total uses a revised shuttle-passenger counting method. The chart shows the long-run shape; the table keeps every total and its change from the previous year.
| Year | Recreation visits | Year-over-year |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 558,095 | |
| 1980 | 571,541 | +2.4% |
| 1981 | 474,092 | -17.1% |
| 1982 | 471,517 | -0.5% |
| 1983 | 472,633 | +0.2% |
| 1984 | 495,104 | +4.8% |
| 1985 | 500,782 | +1.1% |
| 1986 | 578,018 | +15.4% |
| 1987 | 718,342 | +24.3% |
| 1988 | 791,348 | +10.2% |
| 1989 | 808,045 | +2.1% |
| 1990 | 862,659 | +6.8% |
| 1991 | 929,067 | +7.7% |
| 1992 | 1,018,174 | +9.6% |
| 1993 | 1,107,951 | +8.8% |
| 1994 | 1,028,134 | -7.2% |
| 1995 | 994,548 | -3.3% |
| 1996 | 1,269,600 | +27.7% |
| 1997 | 1,174,824 | -7.5% |
| 1998 | 1,166,331 | -0.7% |
| 1999 | 1,081,521 | -7.3% |
| 2000 | 1,099,275 | +1.6% |
| 2001 | 1,068,619 | -2.8% |
| 2002 | 886,436 | -17.0% |
| 2003 | 903,760 | +2.0% |
| 2004 | 987,253 | +9.2% |
| 2005 | 1,017,681 | +3.1% |
| 2006 | 890,676 | -12.5% |
| 2007 | 1,012,563 | +13.7% |
| 2008 | 1,043,321 | +3.0% |
| 2009 | 1,216,377 | +16.6% |
| 2010 | 1,285,492 | +5.7% |
| 2011 | 1,296,000 | +0.8% |
| 2012 | 1,385,352 | +6.9% |
| 2013 | 1,311,875 | -5.3% |
| 2014 | 1,435,741 | +9.4% |
| 2015 | 1,745,804 | +21.6% |
| 2016 | 2,365,110 | +35.5% |
| 2017 | 2,571,684 | +8.7% |
| 2018Highest | 2,679,478 | +4.2% |
| 2019 | 2,594,904 | -3.2% |
| 2020 | 1,464,655 | -43.6% |
| 2020 Reduced ops · pandemic | ||
| 2021 | 2,104,600 | +43.7% |
| 2022 | 2,354,660 | +11.9% |
| 2023 | 2,461,269 | +4.5% |
| 2024 | 2,498,075 | +1.5% |
| 2025Latest | 1,967,367 | -21.2% |
| 2025 Shuttle-passenger counting method changed. | ||
What the visitation trend shows
Read the latest total alongside the record and earlier years.
2025 in the annual record. It ranks 9 of 47 annual totals, 26.6% below the 2018 maximum of 2,679,478. The latest total is down 21.2% from 2024.
The longer comparison. 2025 is 12.7% above 2015's 1,745,804 visits. This compares two endpoints, not uninterrupted growth or decline. Bryce Canyon changed its shuttle counting method in 2025 to count passengers entering by shuttle rather than total boardings. The raw year-over-year change spans that method change; it cannot be read as an equivalent decline in demand.
Read individual years. The source records 2,498,075 in 2024 and 1,967,367 in 2025. The table retains each intervening year. Annual counts do not establish the cause of a change or predict crowding on a particular date.
Questions about Bryce Canyon visitation
How many visits did Bryce Canyon record in 2025?
1,967,367 recreation visits, compared with 2,498,075 in 2024. These are visits, not unique people. The 2025 total uses a revised shuttle-passenger counting method.
What was Bryce Canyon's highest recorded visitation year?
The maximum in this 1979–2025 dataset is 2,679,478 in 2018. The 2025 total uses a revised shuttle-passenger counting method.
Is Bryce Canyon visitation increasing?
The reported 2025 total is down 21.2% from 2024. The 2025 total uses a revised shuttle-passenger counting method. Annual totals alone do not explain what caused a change.
What was Bryce Canyon's lowest recorded visitation year?
1982 has the lowest count in the 1979–2025 series: 471,517 recreation visits. The 2025 total uses a revised shuttle-passenger counting method.
How we built this page.
An independent guide using official data. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Park Service.
- Official annual data
- NPS Visitor Use Statistics Data Package, 2025. Each total sums twelve monthly TRV recreation-visit values for reporting unit BRCA. The table covers 1979–2025.
- What is counted
- Visits, not unique visitors. Repeat visits are not combined into distinct people. The totals do not measure visitor spending, individual trails or parking availability.
- Reading changes
- Recorded changes do not establish causes. Year-over-year percentages compare a total with the previous year. Historical reporting practices and boundaries may differ. The series maximum makes no claim about years before 1979.
- Counting methods
- Bryce Canyon National Park (BRCA). Bryce Canyon changed its shuttle counting method in 2025 to count passengers entering by shuttle rather than total boardings. The raw year-over-year change spans that method change; it cannot be read as an equivalent decline in demand.