CALIFORNIA CAMPING · FOUNDING MEMBERS

Get the campsite cancellations everyone else misses.

California's most-wanted campgrounds get sold out 6 months in advance. Then 30% of those reservations get cancelled. We text you the moment a site opens up — usually within a minute.

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Saturday 4:47 PM

🔥 CAMPSITE OPEN — ELITE Crystal Cove SP — Bluff Site #36 Rating: 9.5/10 (ocean bluff view) Dates: Sat 4/26 → Sun 4/27 Book NOW: rcal.com/p/665

Sound familiar?

You set a midnight reminder for the booking window. You refresh ReserveCalifornia for an hour. By 12:01 AM, every site you wanted is gone.

Or worse — you check casually a week before your trip and the entire weekend is sold out.

Cancellations happen constantly. You just never see them in time.

How Campkey works

Three steps. No app to download.

Tell us where you want to go.

Pick the California parks you care about (up to 5). We monitor every California state park bookable on ReserveCalifornia.

We watch every minute.

Our scanner checks ReserveCalifornia every 1–2 minutes during peak booking hours — Thursday evening through Saturday morning, when most cancellations hit.

You get a text the second a site opens.

Direct text alert with the site name, dates, our 1–10 quality rating, and a one-tap booking link. You'll see it in time to actually book.

Founding member

$9/mo, locked for life if you stay subscribed.

What you get

SMS alerts for cancellations on up to 5 California parks
1–2 minute polling during peak hours
Quality ratings on every site (so you don't get pinged for the parking-lot site)
One-tap booking links straight to ReserveCalifornia
Direct line to the founder — email me directly; every message lands in my personal inbox
Lifetime $9/mo pricing if you stay subscribed

This is the tool I wanted to exist.

I built this scanner originally just for myself. I'm a SoCal surfer and I camp at Crystal Cove, San Onofre, and Leo Carrillo more than anywhere else — all sold out months in advance.

On April 25, the scanner texted me at 4:47 PM about a Crystal Cove bluff site for late May. I tapped the link and locked it in within 30 seconds. The trip is coming up. That moment — getting a text and watching a site I'd been chasing for months get added to my calendar — is exactly why I built this.

I'm now opening up the same tool to 25 founding members.
— Ian, founder

Questions

What if I just want a free option?

California state parks — where most of our users want alerts (Crystal Cove, Big Sur, Leo Carrillo, San Onofre) — don't have any native alert feature at all. The official tools that exist for federal sites are email-only and slower. If you want California state parks, fast SMS, and multiple parks at once, this is the tool. If you only need occasional alerts on a single federal campground, the official options are real and free.

Will this guarantee I get a campsite?

No tool can. When a cancellation hits, it's first-come-first-served. The faster you get the alert, the better your odds — getting it in 1–2 minutes vs 30+ minutes is the entire game.

What if I want a refund?

14-day free trial, no card charged until day 15. After that, email me and I'll refund the current month, no questions. Founding members are too important to me to make this complicated.

What parks do you cover right now?

Every California state park bookable on ReserveCalifornia. National parks (Yosemite, Sequoia, Joshua Tree campgrounds) coming next.

Will my phone number be sold or used for marketing?

No. Your phone number is used only to send you cancellation alerts you've explicitly subscribed to. Reply STOP to any message to unsubscribe instantly. See our Privacy Policy for details.

Who's behind this?

Ian Richardson, solo founder, building this in California. You can email me directly: ianxrichardson@gmail.com. I read every message.