A bluff-top campground straight over the Pacific, between Newport and Laguna, with a trail down to one of the best stretches of open coast in Southern California. It's one of the most wanted campgrounds in the state, and it's gone the instant the window opens. The only realistic way in is catching a cancellation within minutes of it happening.
I run a scanner that checks ReserveCalifornia about every five minutes. Over one 13-day stretch I tracked (April 24 to May 6, 2026), Moro reopened from a real cancellation just once. That's how coveted this place is. But that one opening is exactly the point: when a site this rare frees up, it's gone in minutes, and there is no way a person refreshing by hand catches it. A scanner watching around the clock is the only way you're ever the first one there.
Moro releases on a six-month rolling window through ReserveCalifornia, dropping at 8 a.m., and the bluff sites vanish in seconds against people who do this professionally. The cancellation path is your real shot: someone speculative-books a prime weekend, bails, and the site reopens for whoever happens to be watching.
Crystal Cove is a surf and tidepool coastline, so when Campkey texts you that Moro opened, the alert carries the surf forecast for your dates and the tide times — bring the board or time the tidepools. No other cancellation tool sends that.
We check Moro about every five minutes, 24/7, and text you within minutes of a site opening — with the surf and tides for your dates. You just book it.