Idaho state park visitation
6.21 million
Visitor days at Idaho's state parks over the calendar year, 2024
+1.8% since 2023 (6.10 million); +7.1% since 2019 (5.80 million)
Source: Transparent Idaho, Office of the Idaho State Controller, Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, Statistical Section. Data period 2024. Published .
Statewide visitation at Idaho's state parks, counted in visitor days, calendar year.
Change and comparison
From 2016 (4.82 million) to 2024 (6.21 million), the change was +28.8%.
The series high is 7,024,000 in 2020 and the low is 4,819,000 in 2016.
Historical data
Source: Transparent Idaho, Office of the Idaho State Controller, Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, Statistical Section. Published .
Data table (9 rows)
| Period | Idaho (count) |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 4,819,000 |
| 2017 | 5,426,000 |
| 2018 | 5,726,000 |
| 2019 | 5,797,000 |
| 2020 | 7,024,000 |
| 2021 | 6,846,000 |
| 2022 | 6,003,000 |
| 2023 | 6,097,000 |
| 2024 | 6,208,000 |
State park land
60,000 acres in fiscal year 2025. Total acreage of Idaho state park land, including land under water, as of fiscal year end.
Source: Transparent Idaho, Office of the Idaho State Controller, Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, Statistical Section. Published .
Data table (10 rows)
| Period | State park land (acres) |
|---|---|
| fiscal year 2016 | 60,000 |
| fiscal year 2017 | 60,000 |
| fiscal year 2018 | 60,000 |
| fiscal year 2019 | 60,000 |
| fiscal year 2020 | 60,000 |
| fiscal year 2021 | 60,000 |
| fiscal year 2022 | 60,000 |
| fiscal year 2023 | 60,000 |
| fiscal year 2024 | 60,000 |
| fiscal year 2025 | 60,000 |
Number of state parks
30 in fiscal year 2025. Number of state parks operated by the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation, as of fiscal year end.
Source: Transparent Idaho, Office of the Idaho State Controller, Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, Statistical Section. Published .
Data table (10 rows)
| Period | Number of state parks (count) |
|---|---|
| fiscal year 2016 | 30 |
| fiscal year 2017 | 30 |
| fiscal year 2018 | 30 |
| fiscal year 2019 | 30 |
| fiscal year 2020 | 30 |
| fiscal year 2021 | 30 |
| fiscal year 2022 | 30 |
| fiscal year 2023 | 30 |
| fiscal year 2024 | 30 |
| fiscal year 2025 | 30 |
Source
- Organization
- Transparent Idaho, Office of the Idaho State Controller
- Dataset
- Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, Statistical Section
- Geography
- Idaho (statewide)
- Time coverage
- 2016 to 2025
- Update frequency
- Annual
- Published
- Original file
- https://www.sco.idaho.gov/CAFRDocuments/2025%20Annual%20Comprehensive%20Financial%20Report.pdf
- Methodology
- https://www.sco.idaho.gov/CAFRDocuments/2025%20Annual%20Comprehensive%20Financial%20Report.pdf
- License
- Public domain. State of Idaho government work.
- Our copy
- Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, Statistical Section
Caveats
- Visitation is counted in visitor days, a measure of use over time rather than a headcount of visitors, so it differs from a count of vehicle entries or of individual people.
- Visitation is reported for the calendar year, not the state's fiscal year used elsewhere in this dataset.
- Visitation and acreage are printed in thousands and stored to the nearest thousand; only that precision is meaningful.
- State park visitation is not broken out by individual park in this source; only a statewide total is published here.
Cite
Cite this page as Understand Idaho, “Idaho state park visitation”, https://understandidaho.com/land/state-parks/, retrieved on the date you read it, and the publisher named above for the figures themselves. The dataset behind it is described in the data catalog.
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