Oct 8, 2026A new website is helping campers score Colorado’s most elusive campsites
By Dan England
We want our kids to love the mountains like we do, and now we feel like we can again.
Other apps wish you a great trip. We keep watch on the sky.
- Fire
- Smoke
- Air quality
- Inclement weather
- Closures
Live from the official feeds, all in one place, for Colorado’s most popular permitted spots.
Set the watch once. We do the watching.
Set your watches, once
Pick your campgrounds, permits, and wilderness zones, and the dates you want to go! Two minutes, then you’re done.
We watch it all, around the clock
Every few minutes we check for cancellations, a little slower in the small hours — plus inclement weather, fire, smoke, and closures around RMNP trips. You never think about it again.
You get an email
When a campsite or permit opens, or your trip’s conditions change, you get a plain email with a direct link. Tap through and book it on recreation.gov.
The three hardest kinds of Colorado reservation.
95Colorado spots watched around the clock on recreation.gov — 89 campgrounds, 3 timed-entry permits, and 3 wilderness zones.
See the live coverage mapColorado only. Every place we watch is in Colorado and books on recreation.gov. Colorado State Parks, private campgrounds and other states aren’t covered yet.
Stop refreshing recreation.gov.
Start getting an email the second a campsite or permit opens.
And if a trip falls through, give the reservation back — someone downstream is watching for it.
- You book it yourself
Campsite Ranger emails you when something opens. You book it yourself on recreation.gov.
- Year starts Jan 1
Buy now, watch now. Your membership year doesn’t start counting until January 1, 2027.
- First 100 only
Founding numbers are assigned in purchase order, first 100 only. After that the annual plan is $40 through December 31, then $49 per year.
Colorado State Parks are next.
We don’t watch state parks or private campgrounds yet. Cherry Creek, Chatfield, Golden Gate Canyon and the rest book through a separate system. Get on the list and you’ll be first in the day park-watching goes live.