Pro would add cancellation-rate and trend analytics plus an AI trip concierge. It is not available yet, it has no price, and we are still deciding whether to build it.
Paused until spring. Founding memberships are open.
If you like what we’re building and want to support it, buy a founding membership now. $99 USD will rise to for the same features after launch. It takes 100 founders to get us live in spring, and 500 to get us live within days of hitting that number. Your founding year begins the day we start again, and you can cancel any time before we start for a full refund.
Like the idea but not ready to support? Join the list and we’ll tell you the day we’re back.
Watch three parks free. Add Roam when that isn’t enough.
Roam is a subscription, and you can cancel anytime. It raises your park watches from three to ten, and adds area watches: one covers up to 1,000 campsites around a place you choose, nearest that spot first. We watch every one of them for a cancellation.
We find the opening and alert you. You do the booking yourself, on the park’s own booking page. We re-check for openings around the clock: about once a minute for most operators, and every two to five minutes for a few that ask us to poll more gently. Recreation.gov is slower — about six minutes for dates in the current month, about fourteen minutes for dates further ahead. That cadence is the same for everyone, free or paid. Paying buys breadth, never speed.
Where we watch. Both plans reach every region we watch, with more on the way, and one watchlist can span all of them — a single area watch can cross a provincial or state line. See the full list, and how Roam places a park.
What each plan watches, and what it costs
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Park Watch
$0 no card, no commitment 3 park watches · no area watches |
Roam
$139 USD a year or $17 USD a month Cancel anytime · plus applicable tax 10 park watches · 1 area watch at a time |
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| Best when… | Three parks or fewer | More parks than that, or a whole area |
| What you watch | Parks you name | Up to 1,000 campsites, nearest a place you pick |
| Park watches one park you name | 3 | 10 |
| Area watches a spot on the map plus a distance | 0 | 1 at a time; pause it to watch somewhere else |
| How we reach you | Browser push, email, SMS | Browser push, email, SMS |
| Text (SMS) alerts | First 10 free, then $5 a month, plus applicable tax | Unlimited |
Which plan is yours? Park Watch, the free tier, is the whole product and not a trial — no card, nothing to cancel. Take Roam when you want more than three parks watched, or a whole area. A busy area can hold more campsites than one area watch covers. For one trip, take Roam monthly and cancel when you get back; take it yearly if you camp this way all season.
After your tenth text. Push and email are unlimited and free on every tier, so your alerts keep arriving; only the text stops. Text Alerts turns texts back on for $5 a month, plus applicable tax, and you can cancel anytime. Texts are unlimited while Text Alerts is running.
You see the parks before you pay. Stripe takes the payment and stores your card, and we only ever see the last four digits.
How we price. One price for everyone in each currency, with no A/B tests and no personalised pricing. If we raise it, we’ll say so first, and a subscription you already hold keeps the price you started on.
No password. Every alert is rooted in a verified email address or phone number, and there is no password and no sign-up form.
On iPhone and iPad. Browser push starts working once you have added CampingSorted to your Home Screen.
Questions about the plans
Can I buy Roam right now?
Not right now. Roam is off sale while we’re paused, and goes back on sale in spring. Nobody is being charged in the meantime. To cancel, sign in on your account page and choose Manage billing, or email [email protected] and we stop the next charge the same business day. Cancelling stops the next charge, and your area watches keep running to the end of the period you have paid for. Before you pay, the preview shows the real list of parks Roam would watch, with a count of the ones we cannot place, and Roam watches exactly the parks you kept.
What is a founding membership?
It is the paid tier, bought now and starting when we do. One payment of $99 USD, plus applicable tax. Your paid year begins the day we start again, so nothing is spent while we are still paused. After that year it renews every year at the same rate. You can cancel any time from your account page: before we start we refund the whole payment, and once your membership is running you keep the year you have already paid for. Email [email protected] if anything gets in the way. The rate stays yours for as long as the membership stays active.
It is the only thing on sale while we are paused, because it is the only thing that promises you nothing today. Every other plan buys watching, and we are not watching.
Can I get a refund?
Yes. Cancel any time before we start and we refund the whole payment. Nothing reaches you until we are watching again, so the money stays yours to take back until then.
Cancel it from your account page and the refund goes back to the card you paid with, through Stripe. If anything blocks that, email [email protected].
If we are running later than spring, your paid year still begins the day we start again. You never lose months to a service that is not running.
What if I subscribe and never get an alert?
Roam buys the watching, not the outcome, so payments are generally non-refundable and you can stop them any time by cancelling. If your area watch did not run the way we said it would, that is on us and we refund it in full. And if you are not satisfied, email [email protected] anyway with the region and dates: our Terms commit us to making it right, on top of whatever your local consumer-protection law already gives you.
What does a Roam subscription actually give me?
You pick a place, a distance and your travel dates. Roam then watches up to 1,000 campsites inside that circle at once, and alerts you as soon as we see one open up that matches your filters. Around a big city a circle can hold more than that, so the preview tells you before you pay, and either watches the campsites closest to you or offers you a shorter distance that fits. Roam runs one area watch at a time, so to watch somewhere else you pause the one you have. Over a season that is as many trips as you like, and you still book through the park’s own booking page, the same as always.
What is the difference between free Park Watch and Roam?
Mainly breadth. Park Watch covers three parks you name. Roam scans a whole area at a time, up to 1,000 campsites around a place you pick, so you do not have to guess which one will get the cancellation, and it raises your park watches from 3 to 10 while the subscription is active. We never sell a faster check or priority in line, and the check frequency is identical.
To watch a different area, pause the one you have. Pausing frees your area-watch slot, and starting a new one needs it free. Deleting frees it the same way, and you can take a paused watch back whenever the slot is free.
Which regions does Roam cover?
Roam scans: British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario including its conservation areas, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Washington, Michigan, and Wisconsin — plus Parks Canada’s national parks, which is how we reach Banff and Jasper in Alberta, La Mauricie and Forillon in Quebec, and Cavendish and Stanhope on Prince Edward Island. In those three we watch the national parks, not the provincial booking system. That is every region we watch.
Roam places a park by its map coordinates, and a small number of individual parks in any region are still missing theirs, so those cannot appear in a distance scan. The region preview always shows you that count before you buy, and any park it cannot place you can still watch directly for free on the explore map.
What happens when my free texts run out?
Push and email are unlimited and free on every tier, so your alerts keep arriving; only the text stops. A text is worth paying for when you are not looking at a screen — driving, or out at the trailhead. Text Alerts turns texts back on for $5 a month, plus applicable tax. It adds no watches and changes no other allowance. To cancel, sign in on your account page and choose Manage billing, the same as Roam.
What currency will I be charged in?
US visitors pay in US dollars and Canadian visitors pay in Canadian dollars, so no foreign-transaction fee shows up on your statement. We default to your local currency based on where you are, and you can switch any time with the region control in the header, or the picker beside the table on a phone. Your price is $139 USD a year or $17 USD a month, plus applicable tax.
Talk to a person
Email [email protected] about anything, including a charge that looks wrong, and we aim to reply within one business day. Support is email only: there is no phone line, and we would rather say so than publish a number nobody answers. The help page covers the common questions, and you can manage your alerts with the same email or phone you signed up with.