Campflare

I love this app so much I had to write a review. I wanted a spot at Anza Borrego during wildflower season. It’s usually booked up 6 months in advance, but I was hoping to snag a spot within the month. I’ve only had the app on my phone for 4 days and I already got a spot in Anza! Although I requested notifications if a spot became available, I never got an alert on my phone. Huge bummer if you’re someone who doesn’t check apps unless you’re notified. Definitely an app you’d have to check every few days, depending on the urgency of your situation. I lucked up and truly appreciate these developers for making this.

The way I see it the national park campground reservation system is broken beyond belief and with NPS getting busier and busier every year it feels almost impossible to get anything without planning a full 6 months to year in advance. I’ve paid for campground monitoring services before and paid the 30 bucks they work good but CAMPFLARE oh boy. This app literally saved my glacier vacation because I planned 1 month too late. This is fastest alerting, smoothest, and easiest app to navigate and set your plans for. AND ITS FREE. We should have to pay to win to go camping in NPS. Don’t hate the player hate the broken game. 5/5 will you use for all of my of next NPS trips.

I’ve been using this app for 2 years now. As someone who doesn’t really like planning in advance and is super spontaneous I was able to get really good campsites for holiday weekends (4th of July at pinecrest lake last year and this year at glacier np, memorial weekend at fallen leaf in Tahoe and so much more). If you are able to be spontaneous about where u will end up on your trip then this app is def for you.