Numbers Show Yellowstone NP Had Second Highest Visitor Numbers In 2024

Yellowstone National Park continues to be a popular travel destination based on the numbers that the park keeps track of.

In 2024, the park recorded a combined total of 4.744 million visitors through the 5 entrances to the park.

That makes it the 2nd highest number of visitors in one year, only behind 2021, when there were 4.86 million.

The top 3 years in terms of visitor numbers have happened in the past 4 years, with the exception of 2022, when there was the flooding disaster.

The west entrance continues to be the most popular entry point to the park, as more than 777-thousand automobiles passed through in 2024, which is a 1.1% increase from 2023.

Of the 5 entrances to the park, the northeast entrance tends to be the least used, however more visitors used that entrance last year, than any other year and numbers were up 9.7% (133-thousand plus visitors).

Numbers at the North entrance were up nearly 10% from the previous year, the South entrance was up 4.6%, but the East entrance saw a decline down 2.9%.

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Currently snow plow crews are working on clearing various roads within the park, and are scheduled to open the west entrance on April 18th, the East entrance on May 2nd and the South entrance on May 9th.

The road connecting the North to the Northeast entrance is open to motor vehicle traffic year round.