Yosemite National Park · CA

Tuolumne Meadows is full. Cancellations happen every day.

Tuolumne Meadows campground
Photo: Recreation.gov

Yosemite's high-country giant at 8,600 ft on Tioga Road, gateway to the Cathedral Range. It has been through a multi-year rehabilitation — when sites are released, they disappear as fast as the Valley's.

Your dates

Which nights do you want at Tuolumne Meadows?

We check live and answer straight away. If they're taken, the same dates carry into the alert form below.

Live availability
checked 7 minutes ago via recreation.gov

0 open nights in October 2026 — fully booked.

October 2026

open — tap to book on recreation.govfull — tap to get alerted for that nightweekend

These are live numbers for October 2026, checked when you loaded the page. A watch covers any dates you like.

Your dates aren't available? Get a free email when one opens ↓

Free alerts

Email me when a site opens at Tuolumne Meadows

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

One trip per watch, up to 14 nights.

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Priority Pass checks this watch every 5 minutes instead of every hour, so you usually hear about an opening before a free watch would. 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.

Last catch here — a date opened, still open at our last check. That window is what an instant email wins you.

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Openings we've detected

Recent openings we caught at Tuolumne Meadows

Detected (local)Date affectedResolution
Fri, Sep 25still open at our last check
Fri, Sep 25gone by next check (≤36 min later)
Fri, Sep 25gone by next check (≤37 min later)
Fri, Sep 25gone by next check (≤1194 min later)
Fri, Sep 25gone by next check (≤36 min later)
Sat, Sep 26still open at our last check
Fri, Sep 25gone by next check (≤63 min later)
Sat, Sep 26gone by next check (≤105 min later)
Sat, Sep 26gone by next check (≤75 min later)
Fri, Sep 25gone by next check (≤40 min later)
Sat, Sep 26gone by next check (≤190 min later)
Fri, Sep 25gone by next check (≤459 min later)
Fri, Sep 25gone by next check (≤24 min later)
Sat, Sep 26gone by next check (≤106 min later)
Fri, Sep 25gone by next check (≤489 min later)
Fri, Sep 25gone by next check (≤302 min later)
Sat, Sep 26gone by next check (≤804 min later)
Sat, Sep 19gone by next check (≤81 min later)
Sat, Sep 26gone by next check (≤240 min later)
Sat, Sep 19gone by next check (≤203 min later)

Watching since Jul 13, 2026, checking about every 15 minutes. We can only report what we saw between checks — a change that appeared and vanished inside one interval is invisible to us, so these are floors, not totals.

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

The loop

How it works

01Tell us the nights you want at Tuolumne Meadows.
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/yosemite/tuolumne-meadows.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 Tuolumne Meadows opens up:

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

{"targetSlug":"yosemite/tuolumne-meadows","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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