Using SlothCamp

Supported parks

SlothCamp covers many park reservation systems in the US and Canada: US federal campgrounds on Recreation.gov (national parks, national forests and more), state parks in many states, and provincial parks in several provinces; the coverage page lists the current ones. Directory listings, availability checks and automatic temporary holds are different capabilities. Each campground shows its current support; unverified products are not labelled fully supported.

Immediate openings

Live results are a point-in-time check and can change. If a matching opening is available, SlothCamp links to the official website so you can book it yourself.

Watching and holds

After you start a watch with automatic holds, SlothCamp can try to place one matching option from a trip’s acceptable alternatives in a cart on the official site: on Recreation.gov, the cart of your connected account; on other systems, a cart you check out in SlothCamp's secure view (that cart is in the browser session SlothCamp uses). Dates and site selections are alternatives, not an instruction to hold them all. Provider restrictions, account verification, connection failures or competing bookings can prevent a hold. Unknown availability is not treated as sold out.

You complete payment

A cart hold is not a paid reservation. Review the official site, dates, party information, fees and terms, then pay before the provider’s timer expires: on Recreation.gov in your own account; on other systems in SlothCamp's secure view (their cart is in the browser session SlothCamp uses). SlothCamp never submits park reservation payments. If you authorize it on a watch, SlothCamp ticks the official site's booking notice, rules and cancellation policy boxes in the locked cart for you, only where it recognizes their wording; it never ticks marketing boxes, never states anything about you (age, eligibility, consent) that you did not answer, and you stay responsible for reading the official terms. Without that authorization the hold stops at those boxes for you to tick yourself. Reporting completion in SlothCamp is your report; it is not independent proof of an official booking.

Controlled deployment

The service costs 9.99 per trip: CAD for Canadian campgrounds, USD for US campgrounds; a trip is all the dates and sites you watch at one campground together. Watching costs nothing until a booking really goes through. You save a card when you start the watch; nothing is charged then. When we hold a site for you, the fee is only held on that card. It is charged once, after you finish the booking. If you don't book, the hold is released and nothing is charged; a hold you don't report within about a week is released. We never charge more than this fee, and never twice for the same trip. One authorization covers one watch at a time. Stopping a watch that booked nothing keeps the authorization unused (nothing is charged) for your next watch; you can remove your saved card at any time. Park reservation fees are paid to the park: on Recreation.gov in your own account; on other systems in SlothCamp's secure view (their cart is in the browser session SlothCamp uses). The official provider’s rules and reservation terms apply.

Refunds

Within 7 days of the charge, if you are not happy with a service fee, or have any question about a hold or a charge, email support@slothcamp.com to request a full refund. The refund goes back to the card that was charged and usually shows up within 5 to 10 business days, depending on your bank. The fee appears on your card statement as HOLD MY CAMP. Park reservation fees are paid to the park and are refunded only under the park's own cancellation rules.

Text messages (SMS)

Texts are optional. SlothCamp texts you only after you tick the consent box and confirm your number with a one-time code, and only about your own watches, holds, account and service fees, never marketing. How often depends on openings and varies. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. Reply STOP to stop all texts; reply HELP for help, or email support@slothcamp.com. We do not sell your mobile number or your text message consent, and we do not share them with third parties or affiliates for their marketing or promotional purposes. We share your number only with our text message provider, Twilio, to deliver the texts. How texts work