About this handbook
GroupCampgrounds.com is a short handbook for the person organizing a group camping trip. It is published by OpenCampsite.
Who publishes it
OpenCampsite runs a campsite alert service at opencampsite.com. Campers tell it which campgrounds and dates they want, and it sends a text or email when a reserved site opens up. It is free to use during its beta.
The connection to this handbook is simple. Group sites are few, they book early, and organizers are often the people refreshing a reservation page for weeks. Where an alert is the practical next step, a chapter says so and links to OpenCampsite. Everywhere else, the handbook is about planning, and you can use all of it without ever using the service.
What is advice and what is fact
The handbook contains two kinds of statements.
Planning advice is editorial. The timeline, the roles, the checklists, and the ways to split costs are our recommendations. They are not rules from any agency, and you should bend them to fit your group.
Facts are fees, limits, lead times, and rules. Each one names the agency or organization that publishes it. The official pages are listed at the bottom of the chapter with the date they were last checked. We quote facts as examples from specific places. We do not present one park's rule as if it applied everywhere, and we do not print figures we could not find on an official page.
Rules and fees change. A campground's own listing and your reservation confirmation always take priority over anything written here.
What the handbook leaves out
It does not list group campgrounds, review them, or compare booking websites. It is about how to organize the trip once you know roughly where you want to go.
Corrections
If something here is out of date or wrong, email hey@opencampsite.com with the page and the official source. We will check it and fix the page.
Other sites from the same publisher
- campsiteavailability.com
- campgroundavailability.com
- campsiteavailable.com
- groupcampsites.com
- wildernesspermitalerts.com
- bestcampsitealert.com