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Camp Nelson National Monument

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The US Army established Camp Nelson as a fortified supply depot in April 1863. Over the next 3 years, the site evolved into a massive recruitment and training center for United States Colored Troops and a refugee camp for their families. It served as a shelter for civilians fleeing war and for enslaved people hoping to secure their freedom and aid in the destruction of slavery.

Activities: Front-Country Hiking · Hiking · Junior Ranger Program · Museum Exhibits · Park Film

Monthly recreation visits · 2025

  1. January
    875
  2. February
    710
  3. March
    2,650
  4. April
    1,913
  5. May
    2,914
  6. June
    2,484
  7. July
    2,547
  8. August
    2,524
  9. September
    2,013
  10. October
    590
  11. November
    590
  12. December
    953

Annual recreation visits · 1979–2025

  1. 2021
    43,095
  2. 2022
    16,217
  3. 2023
    16,397
  4. 2024
    34,716
  5. 2025
    20,763

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

Camp Nelson National Monument · The grounds featuring nearly 5-miles of unpaved trails and dozens of wayside exhibits explaining the significance of Camp Nelson, are open 7-days a week from sunrise to sunset. Please see the Visitor Center tab for opening and closing hours, and seasonal changes.

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

Kentucky has a moderate climate, where summers are humid with highs typically in the upper 80s, and winter highs are in the low 40s. Of course, be aware of the possibility of storms or more extreme temperatures on occasion. The wettest months are March - July when about 4 inches of rain per month are expected, with other months of the year are usually drier.

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65 matching records · Recreation visits
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Camp Nelson National Monument43,0952021 annual recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument34,7162024 annual recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument20,7632025 annual recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument16,3972023 annual recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument16,2172022 annual recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument6,314May 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument5,561December 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument5,529July 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument5,462November 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument5,012September 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument4,584August 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument4,548June 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument4,391October 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument4,333July 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument3,951May 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument3,767October 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument3,344August 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument3,216September 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument3,132June 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument2,962November 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument2,951March 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument2,948April 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument2,914May 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument2,676June 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument2,650March 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument2,547July 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument2,524August 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument2,518February 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument2,484June 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument2,404November 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument2,088July 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument2,013September 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument1,941May 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument1,913April 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument1,780December 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument1,704October 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument1,694April 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument1,686August 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument1,640December 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument1,611September 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument1,533April 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument1,514October 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument1,341February 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument1,301May 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument1,261August 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument1,241July 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument1,231June 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument1,105January 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument1,034April 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument953December 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument875January 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument866November 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument845September 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument782March 2023 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument776December 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument710February 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument630March 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument590October 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument590November 2025 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument512January 2024 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument454February 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument252January 2022 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument0January 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument0February 2021 recreation visitsSource record
Camp Nelson National Monument0March 2021 recreation visitsSource record

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