It was another record-breaking year in Yellowstone National Park, as the National Park Service is reporting that for the third year in a row a summer mark for visitors was achieved.

Visitation for the 3 summer months topped 2.5 million. Visitation for the first eight months of the year was almost 2.87 million.

Visitor numbers were up at all five park entrances when compared to year-ago levels. The West Entrance remains the park’s busiest, with over 345,000 visitors in August. The North Entrance saw the greatest percentage increase in visitors, up a whopping 20 percent rise from the same month in 2009. 

Yellowstone hosted a record number of visitors in 2009. Nearly 3.3 million people visited the world’s first national park last year, up 7.5% from 2008 and up 4.6% from the previous record of 3.15 million visitors set in 2007. The park is on track to break the 2009 record this year.

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