The campgrounds that are always booked

Some campgrounds are gone the moment their booking window opens. Refresh at the wrong second and a whole summer of Yosemite Valley is spoken for before you have finished typing. It is not a queue you can win by being organized — for these 28 campgrounds, being early is not early enough.

What does work is being there when somebody gives one back. Cancellations happen constantly — plans change, weather turns, someone holds three weekends and keeps one — and the site drops back into the booking system with no announcement, often in the middle of the night. Nearly every one of them is taken within minutes by whoever happened to be looking.

CampHawk is the part that happens to be looking. Watch one and we recheck it around the clock, as often as every 15 seconds, and the moment a site frees up we text, email and push you a link straight to it.

  1. Yosemite National Park

  2. Zion National Park

  3. Arches National Park

  4. Joshua Tree National Park

  5. Death Valley National Park

  6. Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks

  7. Olympic National Park

  8. Mount Rainier National Park

  9. Grand Teton National Park

  10. Yellowstone National Park

  11. Glacier National Park

  12. Rocky Mountain National Park

  13. Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park

  14. Grand Canyon National Park

  15. Acadia National Park

  16. Assateague Island National Seashore

  17. Shenandoah National Park

  18. Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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