Be first to scoop ‘sold-out’ permits.

No more refreshing recreation.gov like it’s a slot machine. Campsite Ranger to the rescue.

What your watch covers

Colorado’s best campgrounds, timed-entry permits, and wilderness zones come back with almost no warning.

We catch the cancellation. An email the moment a site in your dates frees up — book it before anyone else.

We watch the weather too. Wildfire, smoke, rain, or snow — you’ll know the moment the National Weather Service and official park feeds do.

Pivot to blue skies. Point your watch at a spot with the better forecast that weekend.

No other tracker does the second half.

Set a free watch for any Colorado campsite or permit — sign up in seconds.

or use just your email — no password
How email sign-in works — no password, ever
  1. Enter your email and tap Send it.
  2. Open our email and tap the one-tap link — check spam if it’s not there in a minute.
  3. You’re in. Links work once and last an hour; next visit, request a fresh one.

Emails only when something opens — or weather moves in.

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Live — updating automatically

Other apps wish you a great trip. We keep watch on the sky.

Fire, smoke, air quality, and closures — live from the official feeds, for Colorado’s most-wanted places.

See the full live board — all six destinations
How it works

Set the watch once. We do the watching.

01

Set your watches, once

Pick your campgrounds, permits, and wilderness zones, plus the dates you’d actually take. Two minutes, then you’re done.

02

We watch it all, around the clock

Every couple of minutes we check for cancellations — plus fire, smoke, and closures around RMNP trips. You never think about it again.

03

You get an email (texts coming soon)

The moment a campsite or permit opens — or your RMNP trip’s conditions change — a plain email with a direct link. Tap through and book it on recreation.gov before someone else does.

What we watch

The three hardest kinds of Colorado reservation.

49Colorado spots watched around the clock on recreation.gov — 43 campgrounds, 3 timed-entry permits, and 3 wilderness zones.

See every spot on the live map
Campgrounds
43 Colorado campgrounds, from Rocky Mountain NP to the San Juans.
Moraine Park · Glacier Basin · Silver Bell
Timed-entry permits
3 reservation windows that gate the busiest places.
RMNP Bear Lake · Brainard Lake · Mount Blue Sky
Wilderness permits
3 backcountry zones, gone the day they release.
Conundrum Hot Springs · Four Pass Loop · Capitol Lake
Coming soon

Colorado State Parks are next.

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.

Founding access

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.

Free$0alwaysOne watch at a time. Email alerts.Start a free watchOne Trip Pass$7per tripUnlimited watches on one set of dates. Email alerts.Get a one-trip passFounding RangerEverything, rate locked$49$25a year, locked for lifeFirst 100 founding numbers onlyUnlimited watches on any dates, plus trip-safety alerts.Become a Founding Ranger

Campsite Ranger emails you when something opens. You book it yourself on recreation.gov. Founding numbers are assigned in purchase order, first 100 only, and the annual plan is $49 per year after that. Compare memberships