Stop refreshing.
Start sniping.
Camp Snipe watches sold-out campgrounds around the clock and pings you the second a site frees up — so you can be first in line without living on the booking page.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 — you get a fair shot every time.
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.
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.
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.
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 — 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
We currently monitor two platforms, with more on the way. Don't see your campground? Request it below.
Recreation.gov
Federal campgrounds — national forests, national parks, and Army Corps of Engineers sites across the US. Thousands of sites available.
ReserveCalifornia
California State Parks — including Emma Wood State Beach and hundreds of other CA state campgrounds up and down the coast.
Ventura County Parks
Rincon Parkway, Hobson Beach, Faria Beach — direct county bookings for the coast between Ventura and Carpinteria.
Don't see your campground? Request a platform or campground →
Your campsite is out there.
Cancellations open up every day. Request access and let Camp Snipe catch the next one for you.
Request access — it's free