Plans & pricing
Every place you watch gets three things: an alert when a site opens, a warning if fire, smoke or a closure threatens your dates, and somewhere clear to go if it does. A membership watches all your places at once. Free watches one.
Free
$0 · always
One place at a time
- Email alerts every time your one place opens up
- Trip-safety alerts — fire, smoke and closures near your dates
- The live Colorado conditions board
- Release reminders & all guides — free during beta
One trip
$7 per trip
Every place, one trip
- One set of dates — watch as many campgrounds, permits and zones as you like inside them
- The dates lock to the trip you spend it on; nothing renews
- Trip-safety alerts on those dates, texts as soon as they launch
- No account gymnastics — pay, watch, camp, done
$7 while the Founding 100 last; $11 once the 100th spot fills.
Everything, forever
$49$25 a year · locked for life
Every place, all year
33 of 100 spots left
- Unlimited watches — campsites, permits, wilderness
- Text alerts, the moment they go live
- Release reminders for every system — yours to keep when beta ends
- “Clear elsewhere” rebook suggestions when your dates go bad
- Founders-only intel as it lands — best-site lists, cancellation patterns
- Your number, your rate: Founding Ranger #1–100, $25 no matter what we add
Founding numbers are assigned in purchase order — first 100 only. After that, the annual plan is $49.
Every purchase is covered by a 30-day, no-questions refund.
- One payment, one year — nothing auto-renews
- A heads-up email a month before your year ends
- Renewing is one click; doing nothing costs nothing
- Beta ends when text alerts go live — free accounts get 14 days’ email notice first, and Founding Rangers keep everything, permanently
Camping happiness without the headaches.
Campsite Ranger exists because I’ve always been frustrated by how hard it is to secure a good campsite. I don’t have time to keep refreshing recreation.gov like I’m trying to get tickets to the year’s hottest Red Rocks show.
My wife, our toddler daughter, and I live in Arvada — and every single alert here comes from the same system our own trips run on. Questions, ideas, requests? Shoot me a note at chris@campsiteranger.com — it really is just me over here.