Reservation timing
This subject has probably been brought up before, but my searches showed nothing. Any way, we live in the midwest and many times want to head south to the gulf states for the warmth early in the year....
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Guy Roan wrote:
Your best bet for a Florida state park reservation is as follows:
You need to go on Reserve America at exactly 8:00 AM eastern standard time eleven months prior to your starting date.
A day or two ahead of time you can see what sites will be open.
On your computer have a split screen. One of the screens should be the US official time, (so you can watch the count down.
On the other screen you need all your ducks in order and have the site that you want all picked out. At 7:59: 59 click the button and say a prayer.
My wife used to have six or seven browsers open and and click them as fast as she could. Normally she would gt a site.
We also had a group of friends who worked together with each of us having the others info and credit card numbers.
This may sound like nonsense, but believe it or not we would be able to snow bird the entire winter using this method (two weeks at a time per state park)
Thankfully a few years ago, we bought a lot in a RV park in Key Largo and ever since have been happy campers and able to sleep late on those 8:00 am days.
Guy
^^^^This. Good advice.
Here in Colorado, when using recreation.gov or reserveAmerica, it's a 6 month window for reservations, for Colorado State Parks, USFS Campgrounds, and NPS campgrounds. The timing is slightly different, as it's 10am EST that the window opens, so at exactly 8am MST, be ready to start the process above. Have yourself logged in, have your credit card ready and hope for the best.
