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atodalen
Explorer
Jan 22, 2015

Any hints to score a reservation on Recreation.gov

Myself and a couple of family members have been trying unsuccessfully to get a reservation at a popular Forest Service campground in Idaho. We hit the BOOK NOW button the second that reservations open...
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time2roll
Nomad
Jan 22, 2015
atodalen wrote:
smkettner wrote:
Book midweek camping. Book less days, just one day taken eliminates your search space availability.


I appreciate the thoughts, however, whatever one chooses for search criteria, one can still see what is available and when when a site will come available by using the DATE RANGE AVAILABILITY tab. ;)
Al


Yes so you select the available week and 1/4 second before someone else steals your Saturday and it is a no go.
BTDT, then selected Sun -> Thurs and got it.
YMMV

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