Get notified instantly when a campsite opens.

Within about a minute of a spot opening. PingMyCamp checks Recreation.gov and Parks Canada availability for your saved campground continuously, compares each scan against the last known state, and the moment a previously-booked site flips to available it sends an email and an SMS with the exact site number, date, and a direct booking link. You tap the link, confirm the site is still free, and book it in your own Recreation.gov or Parks Canada account. Speed matters because popular cancellations are often re-booked within minutes.

Sold-out campgrounds aren't really sold out forever: people cancel their reservations all the time (plans change, weather shifts, refund windows close), and each cancellation quietly reopens that site for anyone to book. The problem is you'd have to sit refreshing the booking calendar to catch one. PingMyCamp does the refreshing for you: pick your campground and dates in the form above, and when someone cancels a matching site we ping you immediately with a link straight to the booking page. You book it like any normal reservation — we never touch your account.

Yes. We only read public availability that anyone can see on the booking sites themselves — the same calendar you'd check by hand, just checked more often. We never book for you, never hold or reserve inventory, and never log into your account. The reservation itself always happens in your own Recreation.gov or Parks Canada account, at the normal public price. Think of it as a friend who watches the calendar for you around the clock.

Yes. One account watches both Recreation.gov (US) and reservation.pc.gc.ca (Canada) — including national-park campgrounds like Banff, Jasper, and Yoho — on the same $15/month or $45 lifetime plan. Provincial systems (like Ontario Parks' Algonquin) aren't covered yet.

Yes — 7-day refund window on both plans if no alerts have been delivered. Full terms at /refund.

One click from your dashboard. Pause keeps it ready for next season; delete removes it. Monthly subscriptions cancel via the payment provider's billing portal (linked in your receipt email) and stay active until the end of the paid period.

Yes. Up to 3 re-pings in the first 24 hours (at least 30 minutes apart), then 1 reminder per day until your trip starts. Email always sends; SMS pauses during quiet hours (~10pm–7am PT).

You can — but cancellations land at random hours, and the good ones vanish fast. In our own monitoring we routinely see prime summer sites at campgrounds like Upper Pines (Yosemite) open and get re-booked between two coffee sips. PingMyCamp watches 24/7, reacts in under a minute, and reaches you by SMS even when your phone is locked — so the only time you spend is the 30 seconds it takes to book.