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Get Started Free- 2 campsite watches
- 4-day date span per watch
- California State Parks & Recreation.gov national parks
- Evening digest — what opened today, and what releases tomorrow
- Fast monitoring on 1 watch
- Instant email alerts the moment a site opens
- 30-day date span, covering your whole trip
- Dates are yours to edit for 24 hours, then they lock
- Stacks with your 2 free watches
- Credits toward Premium if you upgrade
- 5 campsite watches
- Instant alerts the moment a site opens — email or push
- Recreation.gov watched at full speed, all day
- ReserveCalifornia watched hardest before and after the 8 a.m. drop
- ReserveCalifornia release-morning reminder at 7:45 a.m.
- Sprint Clock — your server-synced 8 a.m. cue
- Evening digest
What an alert looks like
- 1. You watchCrystal Cove State Park
- 2. It opensFree · in tonight’s digestDibs on Dirt digest: 1 site open nowCrystal Cove State Park · Oct 16 – Oct 18 · 2 nightsPremium · the moment it opensDibs on DirtnowCalled it.Crystal Cove State Park — 2 slots open on ReserveCalifornia. Go stake it.
- 3. You book it
You book it yourself on ReserveCalifornia.
ReserveCalifornia showed these open at 8:02 a.m. PT. An alert is not a reservation, so check before you count on one.
Speed on Recreation.gov. Timing on ReserveCalifornia.
Recreation.gov cancellations can appear any time. Premium watches at full speed, all day.
ReserveCalifornia mixes live cancellations with a morning release window. Premium watches both. Get a reminder before 8 a.m. Pacific. Use Sprint Clock to time your refresh.
Built around how the drop works.
A heads-up before the dropPremium
A push when a ReserveCalifornia cancellation is queued for its next release, usually 8 a.m.
Sprint ClockPremium
A server-synced countdown to the 8 a.m. Pacific release. A 7:45 a.m. alarm if one of your ReserveCalifornia watches has a drop pending.
One alert per openingPremium
Same site, same dates, no repeat pings until it closes and reopens.
Permits and lotteries
Recreation.gov permit cancellations and lottery dates, found from the same search box as campgrounds.
Free tells you what happened. Premium gets you there first.