How to Reserve a Campsite at Yosemite | 3 Tips to Success | Updated for 2023 

Y’all are awesome! This video helped me book an Upper Pines site. So many good tips I applied such as multiple devices, world clock (game changer), refresh and patience. Though I was stressing out, I was able to book a site on my MacBook! Way easier that way. Thank you for helping us out!!

Thank you for posting this! I hadn’t gotten reservations in the valley in like 8 years! Surprisingly mobile app was faster for me or maybe it was because it was a weekend after a holiday.

Thank youuuuu🎉🎉🎉🎉 we could make it thanks to you ❤

This video was super useful. Thanks to your tips, four devices all ready to go, plus a lot of luck, we got our desired campsite in four seconds at Lower Pines for this summer. Thank you so much!

Booked today using a PC and 4 mobile devices, crazy how quick they went but got one first time !!!! PC was definitely the way to go . Mobile devices were very hit and miss !

👏👏👏👏👏 Thank you! You guys are fun. Happy camping!

very helpful video, thank you!

Glad to see you like to reserve in Lower Pines so you won't compete for my spot in Upper Pines. I thought I was good at snaging a site in Yosemite but I learned some things from your YT. Thx. One thing I do differently is set up both laptops for the same site and then as the clock is about 2 seconds before the hour, I hit enter on one laptop and then enter on the other. Unfortunately, even doing that, we got skunked last time. One laptop was early and the other too late. Someone squeezed in there between enters, which shows how competitive Yosemite is. One other thing, I practice by going in on the 15th of the months preceeding when I actually want a reservation.

You have no idea what a huge help your tips were! Last year we camped and I came to realize how hard it was to reserve a site at popular destinations. My problem was thinking that I had enough time until summer came. So preparing months ahead is key! The clock helped a lot too, I had to laugh while watching the video because unless you are the one booking site you have no idea how it feels to stop the world to reserve it😂 we were able to get a site at a campground within the park! Thank you so much for giving your tips and making our summer vacation planning easier 😊

This is super helpful. Thank you so much! Sounds like I need to take a day off for this endeavor. 😆

Thank you for sharing! Quick question you mention 7:00am which time zone 🙏🙏 thanks again!☀️

Hopefully I can get camp 4. This is my first camping trip. Kinda nervous you video helps a lot

Thanks King

Thank you so much. Im gonna try to snag Aug 7th date… ill be practicing first…

I been skunked for 2 years in a row.

If you aren't absolutely committed to camping in the Valley, there's Hodgen Meadow and Crane Flat, about 25 miles drive away. Not ideal, in terms of the extra driving you have to do, but at least you have a little better chance to get campsites there. Elevation at Hodgen Meadow is 4,700 feet, so if you are camping in October, it can get pretty cold at night.

Could you open 5 tabs in your browser on the same computer and logged in to the same account, select different times/campgrounds on each one and then just quickly press "add to cart" on all of them? Or is there some mechanism in place that 1 account can only do 1 tab at a time?

I got one night in lower pines just now

Thank you so much. Would it be easier to choose a less desirable campsite since fewer people might be trying to get those?

Hello, thanks a lot for this video, it's great to have this help! But I am not sure, if I understood it right (writing from germany :-): How can I select the not released days to add it in the cart, before 7am? I think i have to do this just in the moment of 7am, right? Or do I have the possibility to pre-select? Second: Does the site automatically update at 7am and show the availability (change vom NR to A) or do I have to update the page manually?

hi there, thanks this is very helpful, can you add 2 campsites at once to the cart?

Do you think you have to be this aggressive to get a site in Upper Pines for mid October? Or is this mainly for the summer season?

What do you think is better for making reservations? On the app on a phone or on a computer?

Also if I want to go into the park to hike do I need ro make another reservation to hike for 2024?

Is it the only one day you can reserve it? The 15th of each month?

Do you know any other campsite site outside the park to camp? Tks

7am in what time zone? 🙂

What chance we the regular people are going to have none.