Auto-cart in Canadian parks

Canada’s national and provincial park campgrounds fill up the day reservations open, and sites come back when people cancel. CampHawk watches 390+ of them across 8 park systems, alerts you when a site opens, and on the Auto-Cart plan tries to put it straight into a cart for you.

Between July 22 and September 4, 2026 we watched 502 hard-to-book campgrounds, and a fully booked stay became bookable on about 0.9% of checks. Openings are rare, which is why the seconds after one matter.

How auto-cart works in Canadian parks

1. 1Watch the campground you could not book.Search by name or place, pick your dates or a flexible window, and start a watch. Searching is free and needs no account.
2. 2There is nothing to connect.Auto-cart comes with the Auto-Cart plan, and you do not give us a Canadian parks login.
3. 3When a site opens, we alert you and try to cart it.The text, email and push go out the moment we see the opening, and at the same moment we try to put that site in a Canadian parks cart for you. If it worked, a second message says so.
4. 4Check out in the CampHawk app.Open the cart from the app’s Cart button and finish on reservation.pc.gc.ca, signing in with your own account at checkout.

What to expect

• The alert never waits for the cart. You hear about an opening at the same moment we try to cart it, so you can always book it yourself.
• The cart opens in the CampHawk app. Open it from the Cart button and check out there. Without the app you still get every alert at the same moment.
• It can miss. A popular site can be booked by someone else within seconds of opening. When we do not get it, book from the alert as you normally would.
• One cart per stay. Once a site is in your cart we do not add a second one for the same dates while it is held.
• Check out promptly. These systems hold a site in the cart for about 15 minutes.
• It is for your trip, and you book and pay on the booking site yourself. Keep your watches current so it knows what to look for.

Where it works

Parks Canada, Ontario Parks, BC Parks, Manitoba Parks, Nova Scotia Provincial Parks, Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Parks, Yukon Campgrounds and Northwest Territories Parks. Québec’s provincial parks and Alberta, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and PEI provincial parks run other booking systems, which we do not cart on.

Before you start

• Have an account with the park system you book on. You sign in to it at checkout.
• Check that system’s own rules for when reservations open and for its cancellation fees. Those are the park agency’s to set.
• Watch more than one campground if you can. A nearby park with less demand often opens first.

Auto-cart also works on Recreation.gov, Minnesota State Parks, Ohio State Parks, Washington State Parks, Michigan State Parks, Wisconsin State Parks, Mississippi State Parks, Louisiana State Parks and South Dakota State Parks. How auto-cart works everywhere.

CampHawk is an independent service and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by Recreation.gov, the National Park Service, the US Forest Service, ReserveCalifornia or any state park agency. Reservation data comes from the sources listed on our data sources page.