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ktmrfs
Apr 19, 2017Explorer II
To late they were gone before 8:01PDT at most campgrounds, all by 8:15PDT.
we got ONE site at Bates SP. Based on some other info I have it Looks like sites at all the newly available sites in parks in the full eclipse path were gone within about 15 SECONDS. we were looking for two sites, I hit the button maybe 1 second before our camping buddy did and he didn't get a site.
IIRC there were about an additional 1000 sites opened up for today's list, all the previous reservable sites were gone long ago.
I do have to commend state parks. This round allowed reservations for the normal first come first serve parks for Thursday through monday, must reserve all 3 days, no two week reservations, and all these new openings are not site specific but will be assigned on arrival. Nice for a reservation standpoint because you didn't need to pick a site and hope it was available, if not try another, just reserve at a campground.
Bates, overflow at Clyde holiday, and unity all were gone within less than a minute I can say.
And it was likely people from all over the country going for them.
Now had it been the normal Midnite start, maybe it would have lasted a little longer. But from my info state parks wanted to start at 8am so they had staff on line for any issues that may have come up.
we got ONE site at Bates SP. Based on some other info I have it Looks like sites at all the newly available sites in parks in the full eclipse path were gone within about 15 SECONDS. we were looking for two sites, I hit the button maybe 1 second before our camping buddy did and he didn't get a site.
IIRC there were about an additional 1000 sites opened up for today's list, all the previous reservable sites were gone long ago.
I do have to commend state parks. This round allowed reservations for the normal first come first serve parks for Thursday through monday, must reserve all 3 days, no two week reservations, and all these new openings are not site specific but will be assigned on arrival. Nice for a reservation standpoint because you didn't need to pick a site and hope it was available, if not try another, just reserve at a campground.
Bates, overflow at Clyde holiday, and unity all were gone within less than a minute I can say.
And it was likely people from all over the country going for them.
Now had it been the normal Midnite start, maybe it would have lasted a little longer. But from my info state parks wanted to start at 8am so they had staff on line for any issues that may have come up.
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