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 (texts coming soon)
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.
53Colorado spots watched around the clock on recreation.gov — 47 campgrounds, 3 timed-entry permits, and 3 wilderness zones.
See the live coverage mapStop 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.
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
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.