Zion National Park is a U.S. National Park Service unit in UT (NPS unit code ZION), centered on the Virgin River's sandstone canyon and the shuttle-only Zion Canyon Scenic Drive that runs most of the year. The park recorded 4,984,525 recreation visits in 2025 and runs a 5-year mean of 4,857,321 annual visits. The busiest month is June and the quietest is January. Winter visits run at roughly a quarter of June's peak, the only stretch private vehicles drive Zion Canyon directly. This page is the navigation anchor for Zion coverage on this site: the best-time-to-visit pillar covers the month-by-month crowd, weather, and access verdict including monsoon flash-flood timing and the Angels Landing permit lottery; the visitation page covers the long-run annual chart through the 2021 record and the 2025 second-highest reading.
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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.