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Ice Age National Scenic Trail
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The Ice Age National Scenic Trail spans 1,200 miles, traverses some of Wisconsin's finest geologic and glacial features, and passes through the ancestral lands of 15 Tribes. The Trail is built, managed and maintained by dedicated volunteers, Ice Age Trail Alliance, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, local partners, and the National Park Service.
Activities: Backcountry Camping · Birdwatching · Camping · Cross-Country Skiing · Fishing · Hands-On · Hiking · Skiing · Snowshoeing · Volunteer Vacation · Wildlife Watching
2025 reported visitation
29,125 recreation visits. -586 visits (-1.97%) compared with 2024 (29,711 visits).
Highest reported month: July (4,916 visits each). Lowest reported month: January (797 visits each).
NPS Public Use Statistics · retrieved 2026-10-03. Historical reported visits, not a forecast of crowds or conditions.
Monthly recreation visits · 2025
- January
797 - February
1,048 - March
1,603 - April
1,954 - May
3,836 - June
2,007 - July
4,916 - August
3,670 - September
1,234 - October
3,615 - November
2,426 - December
2,019
Annual recreation visits · 1979–2025
- 2024
29,711 - 2025
29,125
Published entrance fees
No fee entries were supplied in this snapshot. Check the official park page.
Published passes
No fee entries were supplied in this snapshot. Check the official park page.
Published operating hours
Trail · The Ice Age National Scenic Trail is not your 'typical' park. The trail is almost 1,200 miles long and crosses the state of Wisconsin north to south and east to west. The Trail is open year round. However some segments may be closed during Wisconsin's November 9-day gun deer hunting season. Additional information about hunting seasons, trail conditions and closures along the rest of the trail is available from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the Ice Age Trail Alliance.
National Park Service Office · The operating hours for the National Park Service office located at 8075 Old Sauk Pass Road in Cross Plains, Wisconsin are Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., except holidays.
Fees, facilities and activities are the 2026-10-03 NPS snapshot. Historical visitation describes recorded visits, not crowding forecasts or present conditions.
Plan your visit
Wisconsin has four distinct seasons. Summers are generally warm, while winters are cold, often bringing significant snowfall. Weather conditions can vary widely throughout the year and location on the trail. Prepare accordingly for each season when visiting the Ice Age National Scenic Trail.
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26 matching records · Recreation visits| Place / record | Recreation visits | Context | Explore |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 29,711 | 2024 annual recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 29,125 | 2025 annual recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 4,916 | July 2025 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 4,043 | July 2024 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 3,836 | May 2025 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 3,670 | August 2025 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 3,615 | October 2025 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 3,552 | October 2024 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 2,851 | June 2024 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 2,602 | January 2024 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 2,597 | September 2024 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 2,426 | November 2025 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 2,389 | May 2024 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 2,339 | November 2024 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 2,084 | December 2024 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 2,039 | August 2024 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 2,019 | December 2025 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 2,018 | March 2024 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 2,007 | June 2025 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 1,954 | April 2025 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 1,795 | February 2024 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 1,603 | March 2025 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 1,402 | April 2024 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 1,234 | September 2025 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 1,048 | February 2025 recreation visits | Source record |
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| Ice Age National Scenic Trail | 797 | January 2025 recreation visits | Source record |
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SOURCES & DEFINITIONS
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Source: National Park Service API for sites, facilities, campground locations and published fee entries; NPS Public Use Statistics for monthly recreation visits, 1979–2025. Snapshot retrieved 2026-10-03. 474 NPS site records include 62 national-park API records; Sequoia and Kings Canyon share one API record. These record counts are not the official count of individually designated parks. 392 API site records have matched visitation history, including the separately reported Sequoia and Kings Canyon visit totals combined for their shared API record. 665 campgrounds are included.
Complete monthly series reconcile with the source’s annual totals. Published annual totals remain available for years with partial monthly reporting. Four monthly entries contain negative accounting corrections. They remain in the archived data and annual totals, and are unavailable as ordinary monthly visit counts. Blank data is not zero. Recreation visits are visits, not unique people. Month as percent of annual peak = selected month visits ÷ largest monthly count that year × 100, requiring twelve nonnegative monthly values. This helps compare recorded seasonality; it is not a crowding forecast, reservation forecast, or present-condition report.
Activities and amenities reflect published NPS entries, rather than a guarantee of access on a particular day. Fees and pass categories are dated 2026-10-03; official site and reservation links provide current conditions and rules. Campground points are published NPS coordinates. Offshore sites can be viewed on the world extent. Broader public-land agencies are outside this reviewed NPS snapshot.
World outlines: Natural Earth 1:50m map units, public domain. U.S. state outlines: Census via us-atlas. Source licenses apply to their respective inputs and derived data. Download the derived parks snapshot · Source manifest, retrieval dates and SHA-256 hashes.
Archived inputs and attribution (14)
- nps-parks.json · National Park Service · NPS federal data; media rights vary by credit · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 3,921,936 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
SHA-256: 29b719dea3c3361c4ef1d7c0f068da09ee366e5335907442453b08db7737072b - nps-campgrounds.json · National Park Service · NPS federal data; media rights vary by credit · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 3,464,748 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
SHA-256: 9762634332c69e5ed729fbe4751a163cab534722c07c7e595b857e9a372b75e3 - nps-campgrounds-500.json · National Park Service · NPS federal data; media rights vary by credit · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 967,966 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
SHA-256: 4160009fb0ddc173680428bba03b765398deeca9d303a518821967c7db5fea20 - nps-visitation-2025-2025.csv · National Park Service · NPS federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 1,071,221 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
SHA-256: 878c51940ae94a29c7e47518d2321713e6d48ad9b008408530723745ca5fab5a - nps-visitation-2021-2024.csv · National Park Service · NPS federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 4,209,731 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
SHA-256: 508548d54089885eb78af5a81c63856ba289c01ee8f39c2d096267b3cf9ce243 - nps-visitation-1979-1983.csv · National Park Service · NPS federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 3,868,488 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
SHA-256: 494795b9ffb6da1f00e10614cde87ef8b18aca67e9c504c2196ba0346c21ddd7 - nps-visitation-1984-1988.csv · National Park Service · NPS federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 4,171,732 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
SHA-256: cd6e3b86c83ecc9ab11d123ea8f560f0590446020fe66eea21e272eb8d931eb7 - nps-visitation-1989-1993.csv · National Park Service · NPS federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 4,393,574 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
SHA-256: 22960690990cec0c7af0e7a55d87ef7ee3d8a116afd81bf753c821f65e50ad00 - nps-visitation-1994-1998.csv · National Park Service · NPS federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 4,538,236 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
SHA-256: c021fdd6108c9d3e1047b954376cf8e01c4f8abf0f327dfe081596dff7939e48 - nps-visitation-1999-2003.csv · National Park Service · NPS federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 4,704,673 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
SHA-256: da3f808031e6f26e1e36c42cc11403b415e24e67844762ac51f33998d2c1cd5f - nps-visitation-2004-2008.csv · National Park Service · NPS federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 4,844,655 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
SHA-256: 373f1d9ae9eff33e2e73b3bfc26d26c6504d2f831fc5b41c5c1e3df7bade6047 - nps-visitation-2009-2013.csv · National Park Service · NPS federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 4,928,350 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
SHA-256: 968591a7dd40985cc44fea48568b8a0880953c7b982b328a6c88077d064c12c2 - nps-visitation-2014-2018.csv · National Park Service · NPS federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 5,057,268 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
SHA-256: 76f1e2173bee73eee3550e4e2e3a987e19d67d4f6841c9c726fa412360a3fb20 - nps-visitation-2019-2020.csv · National Park Service · NPS federal data · retrieved 2026-10-03 · 2,028,678 uncompressed bytes. Published source · Archived input (gzip)
SHA-256: 661d426529aa1b5771d52e29c90758b943edf883fa8e1f9c53f76851e450e5f1
