Fighting for campsites 6 months in advance!
All- Is it me or is booking campsites getting harder and harder? I have spent the last couple weeks trying to book a week in July at Ludington SP in Michigan and it was darn near impossible. Ther...
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In our area at NFs, if you don't show the first night of your reservation and you don't call the rangers, you forfeit the entire reservation. There is no, well I'll book 14 days and then choose which ones to go.
If the campground is not busy, they may allow you to arrive the next day without forfeiting, but that is at the mercy of the host/ranger making the runs that day.
I have seen a campground with reservation cards on every site when the campground is empty, but that's because all those cards show a reservation for the next weekend (so you can walk in during the week and stay, but not expect to stay in that site over the weekend).
It seems to work well. The campgrounds are reserved early, but they are never empty when they're booked up.
If the campground is not busy, they may allow you to arrive the next day without forfeiting, but that is at the mercy of the host/ranger making the runs that day.
I have seen a campground with reservation cards on every site when the campground is empty, but that's because all those cards show a reservation for the next weekend (so you can walk in during the week and stay, but not expect to stay in that site over the weekend).
It seems to work well. The campgrounds are reserved early, but they are never empty when they're booked up.
