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Sold-out campgrounds are frustrating by design

The best sites at popular parks fill up the moment the booking window opens, sometimes months out. But cancellations happen every day. The campers who snag them are the ones who happen to check at the right moment.

  • Windows open 6 months out. Popular sites (Half Dome, Emma Wood, Los Padres loops) sell out in minutes on opening day. If you missed it, you're not out of luck, just out of time.

  • Cancellations are constant. Plans change, family trips fall through, rangers rebook misused reservations. Sites open up every single day. They just don't stick around long.

  • Manual refreshing doesn't scale. You can't watch a booking page 24 hours a day. By the time you spot the opening, someone else already booked it.

  • Camp Snipe watches for you. Set your campground, site type, and date window once. We monitor continuously and fire an alert the moment a match appears, so you get a fair shot every time.

24/7 Continuous monitoring

While you sleep, work, or plan your next trip, Camp Snipe is watching the booking platforms, every hour, every day.


How it works

Three steps, about thirty seconds of setup. After that, we do the watching.

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Set a watch

Choose the campground, site type (tent, RV, ADA, group), and the date window you're flexible on. You can add collaborators so your whole group gets the alert, not just you.

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We watch 24/7

Camp Snipe polls the booking platform's availability endpoints continuously: day, night, weekends, holidays. We respect each platform's rate limits so the service stays sustainable and permitted.

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You get pinged

The moment a cancellation appears, we fire a Pushover push notification or email straight to your device. You open the booking page, confirm the site, and complete the reservation yourself. Camp Snipe never touches your account.


Built for serious campers

Not a scraper, not a booking bot. A thoughtful monitoring tool designed around how real campground hunting works.

Rate-limit-aware monitoring

We apply deliberate delays between checks and respect each platform's published usage guidelines. Camp Snipe is designed to run sustainably, not to hammer servers or violate terms of service.

Pushover + email alerts

Pushover delivers near-instant push notifications to your phone, far faster than email and immune to spam-filter delays. Email is always available as a fallback. You decide which channels you want.

Flexible date windows

Rather than pinning a single night, you can watch any weekend in a month-long range. Camp Snipe alerts you when any matching night opens, then you pick the best one and book it.

Share a watch

Planning with family or friends? Invite collaborators to a watch. When a site frees up, everyone on the watch gets the alert simultaneously. Whoever books first wins, no coordination lag.


Where we watch

Live booking platforms we monitor around the clock, with more on the way. Tap one to see how its sites release and how accurately we watch it.

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Alaska State Parks

Alaska state parks and recreation sites - the Interior around Fairbanks (Chena River), the Kenai Peninsula and Kachemak Bay, the Mat-Su valley and Denali State Park corridor, and Southcentral lakes - all booked through the ReserveAmerica platform.

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Arizona State Parks

Arizona State Parks statewide: Sonoran Desert parks, southern Arizona sky islands, Colorado River parks, and the high-elevation White Mountains.

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BC Parks

British Columbia provincial parks: the Lower Mainland and Sea-to-Sky, the Interior, and Vancouver Island.

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Clackamas County Parks (Oregon)

Clackamas County, Oregon, south of Portland: Barton Park (Clackamas River), Feyrer Park (Molalla River), Metzler Park (Molalla River/Three Lynx area).

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Connecticut State Parks

Connecticut state parks and forests statewide - the Long Island Sound shoreline, inland lakes and reservoirs, and the eastern and northwestern forests - all booked through the ReserveAmerica platform.

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Don Pedro Recreation Agency

Don Pedro Reservoir, Sierra foothills, Tuolumne County, California: Blue Oaks Campground, Fleming Meadows Campground (hookups + marina), and Moccasin Point.

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Florida State Parks

Florida State Parks statewide: Gulf and Atlantic beaches, the Florida Keys, crystal-clear springs, and blackwater river corridors.

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Georgia State Parks

Covers Georgia's state parks statewide, from the north Georgia mountains and Tallulah Gorge to the coast near Cumberland Island and the Okefenokee Swamp in the south.

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Indiana State Parks

Brown County, Turkey Run, Indiana Dunes (state park side), Fort Harrison, McCormick's Creek, and other parks statewide.

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Iowa State Parks

Backbone, Pikes Peak, Wapsipinicon, Ledges, Lake of Three Fires, Maquoketa Caves, and other parks across the state.

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Kern County Parks

Kern County, California, near Bakersfield: Buena Vista Aquatic Recreation Area (Lakes Buena Vista & Webb) and Kern River Campground (Kern River near Lake Isabella).

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Lake Casitas

13 camping loops (Angler, Bass, Creekside, Egret, Fox, Grebe, Hawk, Indian, Jay, Kingfisher, Mallard, Osprey) plus group camps and cabins, near Ojai, Ventura County, California.

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Lane County Parks (Oregon)

Lane County, Oregon: Armitage Park (Eugene/McKenzie River), Baker Bay Park (Dexter Reservoir), Richardson Park (Fern Ridge Reservoir), Archie Knowles Campground (Mapleton/Siuslaw), Harbor Vista County Park (Florence/Oregon coast).

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Maryland Park Service

Maryland state parks statewide (37 parks) under the Maryland Park Service, led by oceanfront Assateague plus Cunningham Falls, Deep Creek Lake, Rocky Gap, Elk Neck, Janes Island, and Point Lookout, booked at parkreservations.maryland.gov.

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Minnesota State Parks

Minnesota State Parks statewide: the Lake Superior North Shore, northern lake country near the Boundary Waters, southeast Driftless bluffs, and western prairie parks.

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Missouri State Parks

Missouri State Parks statewide: the Ozark spring-and-river country, the four trout parks, and the big reservoir lakes.

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Montana State Parks

Flathead Lake, Lewis and Clark Caverns, Bannack, Makoshika, Wild Horse Island, Placid Lake, Lake Mary Ronan, and other parks across western, central, and eastern Montana.

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Nebraska State Parks

Chadron, Lake McConaughy, Fort Robinson, Platte River, Ponca, Eugene T. Mahoney, and other parks and recreation areas statewide.

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New Hampshire State Parks

New Hampshire state parks statewide - the White Mountains, the Lakes Region, the Atlantic seacoast, and the Monadnock and southern forests - all booked through the ReserveAmerica platform.

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New Mexico State Parks

New Mexico state parks statewide, mostly lake and reservoir parks - Elephant Butte, Bottomless Lakes, City of Rocks, Heron Lake, Navajo Lake, Brantley Lake, Caballo Lake, and more - booked through the ReserveAmerica platform.

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New York State Parks and DEC

Covers both OPRHP state parks statewide and DEC Forest Preserve campgrounds throughout the Adirondack and Catskill regions, all under the single New York contract.

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Newfoundland & Labrador Parks

Newfoundland & Labrador provincial parks: the Avalon, the island interior and coasts, and Labrador.

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North Carolina State Parks

Covers North Carolina's state parks and state recreation areas statewide, from the Blue Ridge mountains through the Piedmont lakes to the coastal and barrier-island parks.

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Nova Scotia Parks

Nova Scotia provincial parks: the Bay of Fundy, the Atlantic South Shore, and Cape Breton.

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Ohio State Parks

Ohio State Parks statewide: Lake Erie shore and island parks, the southeast Hocking Hills gorge country, and large inland-reservoir parks.

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Oklahoma State Parks

Oklahoma state parks statewide, centered on lake parks with cabins and lodges - Beavers Bend, Robbers Cave, Lake Murray, Roman Nose, Greenleaf, Sequoyah, Tenkiller, Lake Texoma, Lake Eufaula - all booked through the ReserveAmerica platform.

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Oregon Metro Parks

Oregon Metro / Portland area: Oxbow Regional Park on the Sandy River.

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Oregon State Parks

Oregon state parks statewide, with the famous coastal parks (Cape Lookout, Fort Stevens, Nehalem Bay, Beverly Beach, South Beach, Sunset Bay, Honeyman) plus inland parks like Silver Falls and Smith Rock, all booked through the ReserveAmerica platform.

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Parks Canada

National parks across Canada: the Rocky Mountain parks (Banff, Jasper), the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, and beyond.

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Pennsylvania State Parks

Covers Pennsylvania's state park system statewide, from the Laurel Highlands and Allegheny region to the Poconos and the northern tier, roughly 50-plus parks offering camping out of 124 total.

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PG&E Recreation

Sierra Nevada and Northern California mountain campgrounds at PG&E hydro lakes and rivers: Bucks Lake/Haskins Valley (Plumas County), Lake Almanor basin, Philbrook Reservoir, Blue Lakes (Alpine County), Pit River, and Kings River (Fresno County).

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Recreation.gov

Federal campgrounds nationwide: national parks, national forests, BLM, and Army Corps of Engineers sites.

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ReserveCalifornia

California State Parks statewide: coastal beaches, redwood parks, and inland state parks.

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San Diego County Parks

San Diego County, California: Agua Caliente (Anza-Borrego desert), Vallecito (desert/historic), Lake Morena, Potrero, William Heise (Julian mountains), Dos Picos (Ramona), Guajome (Oceanside/coastal valley), Sweetwater (Chula Vista), Tijuana River Valley (equestrian/coastal).

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Santa Barbara County Parks

Santa Barbara County, California: Cachuma Lake Recreation Area (Santa Ynez Valley) and Jalama Beach County Park (Gaviota coast).

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Santa Clara County Parks

Santa Clara County, California (South Bay): Coyote Lake-Harvey Bear (Gilroy), Mt. Madonna (Santa Cruz Mountains coastal side), Joseph Grant (Mt. Hamilton foothills), Sanborn (Saratoga/Santa Cruz Mountains), Uvas Canyon (Morgan Hill).

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Snohomish County Parks

Snohomish County, Washington (Puget Sound region): Flowing Lake, Lake Roesiger (lake camping), Kayak Point (Port Susan saltwater), Wenberg (Lake Goodwin), Whitehorse & Squire Creek (Stillaguamish/North Cascades foothills), River Meadows (Stillaguamish), Evergreen Fairgrounds RV Park (Monroe).

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Tacoma Power Parks

Tacoma Power reservoir parks in southwest Washington: Alder Lake, Mayfield Lake, Mossyrock, and Taidnapam (Riffe Lake).

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Texas State Parks

Covers 80-plus Texas state parks and natural areas statewide, from the Hill Country and Gulf coast to the Big Bend region and the Panhandle.

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Utah State Parks

Utah state parks statewide - southern red-rock desert parks, reservoir and lake parks, and northern mountain parks - all booked through the ReserveAmerica platform.

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Ventura County Parks

Ventura County, California: oceanfront Rincon Parkway, Faria Beach, and Hobson Beach; inland Camp Comfort, Dennison, Oak, and Kenney Grove (Foster Park closed).

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Virginia State Parks

Virginia State Parks statewide: the Blue Ridge and Appalachian mountains, central piedmont rivers and lakes, and the Chesapeake Bay/Atlantic coast.

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Washington State Parks

Washington State Parks statewide: the Pacific coast, the Olympic Peninsula and Cascades, the Puget Sound islands, and the eastern Washington desert and lakes.

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Wisconsin State Parks

Wisconsin State Parks statewide: the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior shores, the Door Peninsula, the Northwoods, the Driftless bluffs, and the Wisconsin River/Dells corridor.

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Yolo County Parks

Cache Creek Regional Park, Capay Valley, Yolo County, California (northwest of Sacramento): approximately 44 individual campsites + 4 group sites along Cache Creek.

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Yosemite Lodging

Yosemite National Park, California: Yosemite Valley (The Ahwahnee, Yosemite Valley Lodge, Curry Village/Half Dome Village, Housekeeping Camp) and the Tioga Road high country (Tuolumne Meadows Lodge).

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Quick answers

Is Camp Snipe free?

Yes, completely free for members. No subscription, no per-alert fee. Camp Snipe is invite only and we keep the circle small on purpose; once you're approved, you're in for good and can start watching campgrounds right away.

What if the site is already booked by the time I get the alert?

It can happen. Popular sites at peak campgrounds rebook within seconds of a cancellation. Notifications are best-effort and sent as fast as possible, but we can't hold a reservation. Having the booking page open on your device before the alert arrives gives you the best chance.

Do you book the site on my behalf?

No. Camp Snipe monitors availability and sends alerts, nothing more. You complete the reservation yourself on the booking platform's own website. We never handle payments, credentials, or reservations.


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