What PingMyCamp does
We monitor campsite availability on Recreation.gov in the United States and Parks Canada in Canada. When someone cancels a reservation that matches an alert you've saved — the right campground, the right dates — we send you an email and an SMS within minutes.
You book the spot yourself on the official platform. We're the part that watches the calendar so you don't have to.
Why we built it
The best campgrounds sell out months in advance. But plans change, and people cancel all the time. Those freed-up spots quietly reappear — sometimes for hours, sometimes for seconds — and get claimed by whoever happens to be refreshing the booking page at the right moment.
We didn't want that to be a full-time job. So we built something to keep watch and tap us on the shoulder the instant a site opens up.
How alerts reach you
You tell us the campground, your travel dates, and where to reach you. Our scanner checks availability on a tight cadence while your travel window is open.
The moment a matching spot appears, you get pinged by email and SMS so you can grab it before anyone else does.
Independent, and honest about it
PingMyCamp is an independent service. We are not affiliated with Recreation.gov, Parks Canada, the U.S. National Park Service, or any reservation platform.
We never auto-book or hold sites for you — securing the reservation always happens on the official platform, by you. Our job is simply to tell you the exact moment to look.