Yellowstone National Park is the National Park Service's flagship Northern Rockies unit, spanning Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho (NPS unit code YELL). The park recorded 4,762,988 recreation visits in 2025 and runs a 5-year mean of 4,431,841 annual visits. The busiest month is July and the quietest is November; November visits run at roughly 3% of July's peak because most interior roads close to wheeled vehicles for winter. This page is the navigation anchor for Yellowstone coverage on this site: the best-time-to-visit pillar covers the month-by-month crowd, weather, and access verdict with audience modules for families, winter drivers, photographers, and RV travelers; the visitation page covers the long-run annual chart with the pandemic, the 2022 flood, and the post-flood recovery. Independent site, not affiliated with the National Park Service.
Current conditions
Biscuit Basin Closed Due to Hydrothermal ExplosionClosed · in effect now · nps.gov
Stay Away From Bull ElkSafety · in effect now · nps.gov
Designation, states, and coordinates come from the official NPS unit page. Annual visits and the busiest and quietest months are computed from the NPS Visitor Use Statistics Data Package, 2025 on NPS IRMA Stats. Each month's crowd label compares its five-year mean to the park's peak month. Independent site, not affiliated with the National Park Service.
Independent site. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Park Service. Data comes from the official NPS Visitor Use Statistics Data Package, 2025; editorial analysis is ours. The NPS Arrowhead and other NPS marks are not used.