About Parks Open

What it is

Parks Open answers one question — where can I camp on these dates? — from live reservation data. It reads the public reservation systems continuously, works out which sites are open for a whole stay (not just some night in the range), and shows the answer by park, by site, and by what actually fits your rig. When the park you want is full, it watches for cancellations and emails you the official booking link the moment a site frees up.

Where the numbers come from

Every availability figure is read from the official reservation system and stamped with the time it was observed; that stamp is shown next to the number, on the site and in every API and MCP answer. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. If the feed is more than about thirty minutes old the site says so and the number is shown as paused rather than as current. Systems tracked today: BC Parks, Ontario Parks. Coming: Parks Canada.

What it never does

Alerts watch exact dates or any stay of a given length in a window — “any weekend in September” is one alert, not four. It never books on your behalf and never asks for your reservation-system password. Booking is always handed off to the official site with a deep link into the exact site and dates. It does not hold, pre-book, or resell sites, and it does not run bots against the booking flow — reading availability is all it does, at a rate well below what the reservation systems serve to ordinary visitors. It does not sell data or run advertising trackers; the usage analytics it keeps are described in the privacy policy.

Who runs it

Parks Open is built and operated by a small British Columbia company founded by campers who were tired of refreshing the reservation page at 7 a.m. The service is free to use today; an invite-only paid alert tier is planned so it can pay for reliable polling and delivery. Questions, corrections and data requests: support@parksopen.ca. See also Privacy, Terms, Contact, and the developer and agent page (MCP server, REST API, OpenAPI).