Most campsites are sold-out months in advance. Many of these reservations are cancelled—and campsites go unused. Our app scans for these openings. Tell us where, when, and how long you want to camp. We’ll text you when a suitable spot opens up!
Hi PH!
Last summer, my friend @shelkie couldn’t book a campsite. Everything was sold-out, and he was kind of pissed. At the last minute, his wife (Kim) spotted a new availability and they immediately booked it. This led him to ask: “How often do new campsites become available—without anyone knowing?” The answer: Very often.
Turns out many thousands of campers cancel their campsite reservations every day. Most times, these sites go unused, and everyone loses out. This led @shelkie to build a little tool, so, he could nab spots when they opened up. A short while later we opened this up to B.C. residents.
As it worked well here, we went on to add Ontario, and National Parks in Canada. Then, we added Washington State, Oregon, and California. Most recently, we added all parks managed by recreation.gov. (This adds a lot of areas in the U.S. as they manage a lot of parks/campgrounds.)
We both like how Campnab helps people get outside, and spend time together around a campfire. We hope it helps you do the same!
Eric
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Campnab is a beautifully designed interface and service. It makes the whole process super easy to select the sites you want notifications for, and then sends you text messages when there is availability. Thanks to Campnab we were able to grab a site at a British Columbia campground in crazy demand due to COVID, which would have been impossible without the real-time notifications. While so many of these services are bloated with way too many choices and forms to get you from your desired goal to enrolment, Campnab has been streamlined with only the necessities and intuitive interface design. Huge kudos to the team for making a product that so perfectly fits the need, and got our family camping when the availability prospects looked bleak.
@adamler Nice! Thanks for giving the product a try. It’s great to hear that it’s doing what it should. :-)
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No joke. I spent 2 hours last night looking for camp sites, and then I thought that I needed a tool that does exactly this... but I am running into issues:
1. I need to be able to pick what kind of camping (RV, Tent, Cabin.. so on) cause finding RV spots when I need a tent spots is no good.
2. I get to Step 6, and there's nothing else. Pay-per-use option is checked but I get no buttons or instructions to what's next (phone verified). So I don't know if I signed up, or what to expect.. it just leaves me hanging wondering if it worked.
3. The pricing of pay-per-use seems way high compared to the actual price of camping.
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I refreshed the page, and went through the form again, this time I got the pricing table at the end, for some reason it did not show up the first time.
@tostartafire I’ll respond to these in sequence. :-)
1. I agree: filtering like that would be useful. The challenge is in the number of varying systems we scan. If we scanned just one system, adding filters would be a no-brainer, but, making them work with numerous systems is surprisingly complicated. So, we might add this feature, but it’ll be a while.
2. I see from your next note that this resolved itself. It it happens again, let me know.
3. I can appreciate that; however, it does cost us to run scans so frequently—and for so long. Plans are certainly the best value, with the lowest cost option costing you approximately $1.67 per park you scan.
Was a bit skeptical at first but Campnab turned out to be an absolute savior for our trip! They scan all the National Park reservation sites looking for spots that open up due to cancellations. A lot of people book lonnggg in advance and many of them end up cancelling closer to the date due to changes in plans or whatever.
We booked our trip last minute and were super disappointed to find that all the camp spots at Arches and Zion were fully booked.
Within hours of setting up an alert, I got a text message with a direct link to book a spot that had opened up at Devils Garden in Arches! Was magical! A day later we got notified of an opening at Watchman Campground in Zion. Worked perfectly and was well worth the $20 to save us from the stress of not having a place to stay!
@wizlikewizard That’s awesome! Glad to hear that it worked out so well for you!
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Great product! I use this site yearly to get campsites at all my favorite campsites that are impossible to get a spot through the usual means of reserving. I am sure this will be my go-to site for years to come!
@samuel_gold Thanks Samuel! We appreciate the support and love hearing that we’re helping fill a need. Glad we could be of service! 🤙
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Camping in my area is.. impossible. Sites get booked the morning they become available. It's insane. I was feeling sad about not being able to enjoy the great outdoors. BUT thanks to Campnab I was able to go camping multiple times this season. Thanks Campnab team!
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