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Ranked by our own live Recreation.gov tracking data for the recreation.gov campgrounds we watch, including Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains, not guesswork. This is a snapshot drawn straight from the same alerts pipeline.
Verified by the Camp.land team, October 2026Ranking reflects 13 campgrounds currently in Camp.land's live tracking rotation, out of 64 recreation.gov campgrounds we watch, including Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains, as of Oct 20, 2026.
Camp.land checks Recreation.gov for the federal campgrounds we track, including Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains, roughly every 30 minutes. Each check records, per campsite and date, whether the site is currently reserved or available.
Booked-out rate = reserved campsite-nights ÷ (reserved + available) campsite-nights, for whatever dates we currently have live data on for that park. We exclude walk-up-only and non-bookable sites from this calculation — those reflect site type, not demand, and counting them would overstate how booked-out a park actually is.
This is a live snapshot, not a multi-week trend — most parks below currently have data for one or a handful of dates (shown per row). We’re not going to dress that up: small samples mean less confidence, which is exactly why the sample size is printed next to every rank instead of hidden. As our tracking accumulates longer history across the campgrounds we watch, this page will incorporate true fill-rate-over-time metrics automatically — no manual rewrite required, it reads straight from the same live tables.
| # | Park | Booked-Out Rate | Sample (N) | Dates Tracked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wawona Campground — Yosemite National Park | 100% | 5 | 5 |
| 2 |
| Big Meadows Campground — Shenandoah National Park |
| 100% |
| 5 |
| 5 |
| 3 | Watchman Campground — Zion National Park | 90.8% | 76 | 30 |
| 4 | Furnace Creek Campground — Death Valley National Park | 79.2% | 48 | 23 |
| 5 | North Campground — Bryce Canyon National Park | 53.3% | 15 | 14 |
| 6 | Elkmont Campground — Great Smoky Mountains National Park | 48.4% | 91 | 40 |
| 7 | Fruita Campground — Capitol Reef National Park | 47% | 166 | 48 |
| 8 | Oregon Inlet Campground — Cape Hatteras National Seashore | 31.5% | 108 | 46 |
| 9 | Canaveral National Seashore Permits | 21.7% | 23 | 19 |
| 10 | Tyler Bend Campground — Buffalo National River | 20% | 50 | 31 |
| 11 | South Campground — Zion National Park | 8.1% | 37 | 5 |
| 12 | Monument Lake Campground — Big Cypress National Preserve | 6.9% | 29 | 22 |
| 13 | Midway Campground — Big Cypress National Preserve | 0% | 8 | 8 |
A high booked-out rate doesn’t mean impossible — it means you need to catch the cancellation. Set a free alert and we’ll email you the moment a site opens.
Start Getting AlertsCurious about Texas state parks too? That’s a separate topic from this live federal ranking, but read our guide to the hardest Texas state parks to book for booking strategies at each one.
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