How does recreation.gov expect people to reserve a site…
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How does recreation.gov expect people to reserve a site for multiple nights?
\*UPDATE: After some decent feedback from people, I went back into the app and was able to update my second reservation (Site 40) to extend it to a second night. So thank you to this community for the assist. Now if I’m lucky, I can catch the resident of Site 40 before they set up and we can swap for the one night. If not, we move camp and I have learned a lesson.\*
This is more of a rant than anything. But maybe I’m missing something that someone can educate me on.
We want to go camping at Mora Campground, on the Olympic Peninsula, in two weeks. Sites at Mora aren’t released until fourteen days ahead. Yesterday I found a site that would fit our tent, waited for the 7:00 a.m. Pacific time for the sites to be released, and hit Reserve for Site 57 for the first night fourteen days out. This morning I went through the same thing for the next day, because you can’t reserve a site for multiple nights, not even a soft-reserve, if one of those nights is more than fourteen days out. I waited, and I hit Reserve, and was told that someone else had already reserved the site. It had to have been two seconds ahead of me, no more. I was like a hawk on that button. So I cleared my search (no easy feat; I had to go use a web browser rather than the app) and found another site just around the corner. So now we have to pick up camp and move it 200 feet for the second night. And tomorrow I need to do the same damn thing, hoping the new site is available.
There has to be a better way. I get that recreation.gov doesn’t want people reserving huge blocks of nights at once; they want to avoid abuse. But their current system just shifts the abuse to another area.
If anyone has reserved Mora site 57 for Saturday the 20th and wants to swap it for site 40 for the same night, let me know.
#activity #camping
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\*UPDATE: After some decent feedback from people, I went back into the app and was able to update my second reservation (Site 40) to extend it to a second night. So thank you to this community for the assist. Now if I’m lucky, I can catch the resident of Site 40 before they set up and we can swap for the one night. If not, we move camp and I have learned a lesson.\*
This is more of a rant than anything. But maybe I’m missing something that someone can educate me on.
We want to go camping at Mora Campground, on the Olympic Peninsula, in two weeks. Sites at Mora aren’t released until fourteen days ahead. Yesterday I found a site that would fit our tent, waited for the 7:00 a.m. Pacific time for the sites to be released, and hit Reserve for Site 57 for the first night fourteen days out. This morning I went through the same thing for the next day, because you can’t reserve a site for multiple nights, not even a soft-reserve, if one of those nights is more than fourteen days out. I waited, and I hit Reserve, and was told that someone else had already reserved the site. It had to have been two seconds ahead of me, no more. I was like a hawk on that button. So I cleared my search (no easy feat; I had to go use a web browser rather than the app) and found another site just around the corner. So now we have to pick up camp and move it 200 feet for the second night. And tomorrow I need to do the same damn thing, hoping the new site is available.
There has to be a better way. I get that recreation.gov doesn’t want people reserving huge blocks of nights at once; they want to avoid abuse. But their current system just shifts the abuse to another area.
If anyone has reserved Mora site 57 for Saturday the 20th and wants to swap it for site 40 for the same night, let me know.
#activity #camping
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