Plans & pricing
Every place you watch gets three things: an alert when a site opens, a warning if fire, smoke or a closure threatens your dates, and somewhere clear to go if it does. A membership watches all your places at once. Free watches one.
Free
$0 · always
One place at a time
- Email alerts every time your one place opens up
- Trip-safety alerts — fire, smoke and closures near your dates
- The live Colorado conditions board
- Release reminders & all guides — free during beta
Everything, forever
$49$25 a year · locked for life
Every place, all year
1 of 100 spots left
- Watch from today — your year starts counting January 1, 2027
- Unlimited watches — campsites, permits, wilderness
- Text alerts to your verified US mobile, on top of email
- Release reminders for every system — yours to keep when beta ends
- “Clear elsewhere” rebook suggestions when your dates go bad
- Backup buddy — invite one friend to get your alerts too
- Founders-only intel as it lands — best-site lists, cancellation patterns
- Your number, your rate: Founding Ranger #1–100, $25 no matter what we add
Founding numbers are assigned in purchase order — first 100 only. After that, the annual plan is $40 if bought by December 31, then $49.
Every purchase is covered by a 30-day, no-questions refund.
- Buy now, watch now
Your year doesn’t start counting until January 1, 2027.
- One payment, one year
Nothing auto-renews.
- A heads-up email
A month before your year ends.
- Renewing is one click
Doing nothing costs nothing.
- Beta ends when the 100th Founding Ranger spot fills
Before anything moves behind a paid plan, free accounts get 14 days’ email notice, and Founding Rangers keep everything, permanently.
No account yet? Buy now — we set one up on your checkout email and send you a sign-in link.
Holiday gift
Give the person you camp with a year outside.
A $25 gift makes them a Founding Ranger, with the $25-a-year price locked for life.
Only 1 of 100 Founding spot left. Once all 100 are filled, the gift goes up to $40 through December 31, still less than the regular $49 for a year.
- The rest of 2026 is on usThey can start watching the day they redeem it. Their year doesn’t start counting until January 1, 2027.
- Their spot is heldEach gift holds one of the Founding spots, so it can’t sell out from under them.
- Ready to wrap in a minuteThe code and a printable card arrive right after checkout, so it works even on Christmas Eve or the first night of Hanukkah. It stays good for a full year.
Camping happiness without the headaches.
Campsite Ranger exists because I’ve always been frustrated by how hard it is to secure a good campsite. I don’t have time to keep refreshing recreation.gov like I’m trying to get tickets to the year’s hottest Red Rocks show.
My wife, our toddler daughter, and I live in Arvada — and every single alert here comes from the same system our own trips run on. Questions, ideas, requests? Shoot me a note at chris@campsiteranger.com — it really is just me over here.