reservation sites

agesilaus wrote:

Dutch_12078 wrote:
The Recreation.gov reservation system contract was moved from Aspira, the ReserveAmerica.com folks, to Booz, Allen, Hamilton last month, and there are no more cross listings between the two sites. It'll likely get even more confusing soon when Aspira launches a totally redesigned ReserveAmerica. And then there are the states like CA, SC, and others that go their own way, using their own systems...

Well darn that's the second time they moved the vendor and the site was fouled up for a year after. The first one that had was the best, easy to navigate.

It's all about who bids the most for it...

To be clear, the first Recreation.gov contractor was ReserveAmerica, Inc. which was then sold a couple of times until it was spun off by ACTIVE Networks as the independent Aspira, Inc. that continued to operate both ReserveAmerica and Recreation.gov until the federal contract expired and Booz, Allen outbid them for the new Recreation.gov contract. Aspira still owns and operates ReserveAmerica though, that contracts with state and local government parks and a number of private parks.

I have to agree that Recreation.gov has become about the worse site I have used. I can't even log in. I keep getting told to wait a while and it will be fixed. Yeah, I've been waiting.
Guess it just goes to show you, the almighty dollar speaks. You get what you pay for.
And we suffer!

Dutch_12078 wrote:
The Recreation.gov reservation system contract was moved from Aspira, the ReserveAmerica.com folks, to Booz, Allen, Hamilton last month, and there are no more cross listings between the two sites. It'll likely get even more confusing soon when Aspira launches a totally redesigned ReserveAmerica. And then there are the states like CA, SC, and others that go their own way, using their own systems...

Well darn that's the second time they moved the vendor and the site was fouled up for a year after. The first one that had was the best, easy to navigate.

The Recreation.gov reservation system contract was moved from Aspira, the ReserveAmerica.com folks, to Booz, Allen, Hamilton last month, and there are no more cross listings between the two sites. It'll likely get even more confusing soon when Aspira launches a totally redesigned ReserveAmerica. And then there are the states like CA, SC, and others that go their own way, using their own systems...

I feel your pain. Whoever updated Recreation.gov should be fired immediately.

Well rangerjean, what states and what parks and campgrounds. Calif. no longer uses a third party system they have their own, and I'm not sure about other states. There has been some consolidation among private campgrounds.

Phone calls are a better and faster way to find out.

We ran into this on our last trip. A few of the state parks we stayed at were first come basis. There were some sites that could be reserved, but the rest show up as not reservable. These were basically "walk-up" sites.

What campground?