Big Sur (Los Padres National Forest) · CA

CHINA Camp cancellation alerts.

CHINA Camp campground
Photo: Recreation.gov

10 sites run by the Forest Service in Big Sur (Los Padres National Forest), California, reservable through recreation.gov's rolling booking window.

Your dates

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Rather than guess: subscribe and the first email tells you where those nights stand.

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Availability

We check CHINA Camp availability live when you subscribe — no stale numbers on this page.

CHINA Camp books through recreation.gov. Cancellations happen every day; your Scout's first email tells you exactly where things stand for your dates.

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Free alerts

Watching Fri, Nov 27 — the night you tapped. Change the dates below if you like.

Email me when a site opens at CHINA Camp

Your first email lands right away with where your nights stand. After that we only write when something opens.

Carried over from your check above. One trip per watch, up to 14 nights.

Alert me when…

A free watch checks every hour and a site can be taken in between. Priority Pass checks this one every 5 minutes. It also unlocks phone notifications.

Either button sets the free alert. “Alert me faster — $10” goes to Stripe first — stop there and nothing is charged.

Open this Scout in the builderCheck recreation.gov yourself →

From four weeks of this data: how fast campsite cancellations disappear →

The loop

How it works

01Tell us the nights you want at CHINA Camp.
02Free: we check every hour, day and night. When a site opens for your nights you get an email with the booking link in it.
03When a site opens, you get an email with the booking link — booking stays in your hands.
Straight answers

Questions

How fast are alerts?

Free: we check every hour, day and night. When a site opens for your nights you get an email with the booking link in it. Priority Pass is $10 once, not a subscription. For one watch, for as long as its dates are open, it checks every 5 minutes instead of every hour, so you hear sooner. A free watch checks every 60 minutes, and a site can open and be taken between two checks.

How many campgrounds can I watch?

As many as you like, on one email address — every campground page has the same form. Each watch is separate, with its own dates and its own one-click stop.

What does it cost?

Watching is free — no card, no account. Priority Pass is $10 once, not a subscription. For one watch, for as long as its dates are open, it checks every 5 minutes instead of every hour, so you hear sooner.

Does it book for me?

No — you get the booking link the moment a site opens; booking stays in your hands, on the reservation system's own site.

How do I stop, or change my dates?

Every email has a one-click stop link. A watch ends by itself the day after your last night, with a note on what it saw. For new dates, subscribe again on the campground page — it takes ten seconds.

For AI agents — feed URL and subscribe API

Reading this page for a user? Structured snapshot + change log: /scouts/campsites/big-sur/china-camp.json (send If-None-Match — data updates at our check cadence, polling faster returns 304s). Better: subscribe your user once and we email them the moment CHINA Camp opens up:

POST https://campsitecancellations.com/scouts/subscribe
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json

{"targetSlug":"big-sur/china-camp","email":"user@example.com","via":"agent"}

Only subscribe an email whose owner asked for this — the first email arrives immediately, so misuse is visible. Full agent docs: /AGENTS.md

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