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Everything worth having sells out. We watch it all.

The campsite, the Friday-night table, the playoff ticket — they're gone in minutes, and they come back just as quietly when someone cancels. itOpened watches the official booking calendars around the clock and texts you the second a spot opens. You book it yourself, in your own account, at the normal price.

  • Instant SMS the moment a matching opening appears — not an email you'll see tomorrow
  • One watch list across every platform: parks, restaurants, venues, courses
  • We never book, hold, or resell. You always book it yourself
Half Dome with Eastern Yosemite Valley — Yosemite National Park Watching now — Upper Pines Campground, Yosemite
Yosemite National Park. Photo: Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Create your first watch — free

Tell us what sold out on you. We'll watch it and text you when it opens.

Free Scout watch: 1 active watch, email + text alerts. By submitting you agree to receive alert texts for this watch; reply STOP anytime. Your fee on paid plans pays for monitoring — openings are first-come and no service can guarantee a booking.

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Your watch is on the list

We're setting up your watch now. When a matching opening appears, you'll get a text with a direct booking link — tap it fast and book in your own account before someone else does.

130,899
Campsites catalogued in our park directory
4,966
Reservable campgrounds tracked across the federal system
2.5 min
Scan cycle on watched campgrounds — around the clock, every day
16
Real openings caught on the first night of live scanning — Oct 29, 2026

How it works

Sold out isn't final. Cancellations are constant.

People book months ahead, then plans change. Every cancelled campsite, table, and ticket goes straight back into the pool — with no announcement. Whoever sees it first, gets it. We make sure that's you.

1

Set a watch

Pick the place, the dates, and the fit — a site that takes your RV, a table for two on any Friday in June, a tee time before 9am Saturday. Flexible ranges mean more chances.

2

We scan, around the clock

Our scanners check the official booking calendars again and again — including at 3am, when a lot of cancellations surface. You'd have to refresh every few minutes for weeks to do this yourself.

3

You get the text, you book it

The second a matching opening appears, your phone buzzes with a direct link to the exact site, table, or seat. Tap, book in your own account, done. We never touch the booking.

The honest part: your fee pays for monitoring. If nobody cancels, no alert can fire — and openings are first-come, so a fast alert is an edge, not a promise. No service can guarantee a booking, and you should distrust any that says it can.

What we watch

One account. Every sold-out thing in your life.

Every other alert service covers one thing. Your sold-out problems don't come one at a time — so your watch list shouldn't either.

Half Dome with Eastern Yosemite Valley — Yosemite National Park

Yosemite National Park. Photo: Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Campsites & Permits

National and state park campgrounds, backcountry permits, and timed-entry reservations that vanish the day the booking window opens — and trickle back as cancellations, all season long.

Federal + state parks
Flower Garden - The French Laundry (2827135984) — The French Laundry, Yountville

The French Laundry, Yountville. Photo: Jill Clardy from Redwood City, CA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Restaurant Tables

The Friday 7pm table for two at the place that's booked out for a month. We watch across reservation platforms at once, so a cancellation anywhere reaches you in one text.

Across platforms
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Colorado 1 — Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Colorado

Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Colorado. Photo: Sarbjit Bahga, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Concerts & Sports

Never miss a window again: tour announcements, fan-verification sign-ups that close in days, presale and on-sale times in the right order — plus price-drop watches on resale listings under your max.

Deadlines + price drops
7th hole, Pebble Beach Golf Course, Del Monte, Calif. LCCN98509583 — Pebble Beach Golf Links

Pebble Beach Golf Links. Photo: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Tee Times

Weekend mornings at popular public courses go first and come back last-minute. Set your course, your window, and your max price once — get texted every time a slot frees up.

Public courses
2013 Indian Wells Masters tennis court - 001 — Indian Wells Tennis Garden, California

Indian Wells Tennis Garden, California. Photo: saimad, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Courts

Tennis and pickleball courts at municipal facilities book out days ahead. We watch the reservation calendars and ping you when your court and hour open up.

Tennis · Pickleball
Boonsboro Washington Monument — The Washington Monument, Washington, DC

The Washington Monument, Washington, DC. Photo: Warrenfish, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Tours & Timed Entry

Lighthouse tours, historic homes, popular attractions with daily caps. When a timed-entry slot is released or cancelled, you'll know before the walk-up line does.

Capped attractions

Why not just use the free alerts?

The official alert goes to everyone. Ours goes to you, first, by text.

Most booking platforms offer a free "notify me" list. Read the fine print and you'll see the problem: when a spot opens, that same email goes out to every single person watching those dates — sometimes hundreds of people — and the spot is gone before most of them open it.

Free official alertsitOpened
Who gets told Everyone on the list, at the same time, in one blast You, matched to your exact dates and fit, the moment our scan sees it
How it reaches you Email — whenever you happen to check it Instant text message, day or night
What you can watch One place, one date, on that one platform Flexible ranges ("any Friday in June"), across platforms, in one watch list
How often it checks On the platform's schedule, not yours Around the clock, with the fastest scans on paid plans
What it costs Free — and priced like it Free to start; paid plans fund the scanning speed

Pricing

Cheaper than one night in the wrong hotel.

Start free. Pay only when you want speed, more watches, and more categories. Pause or cancel anytime — no contracts.

Scout
$0

Try it on one real hunt

  • 1 active watch
  • 1 category
  • Email alerts
  • Standard scan speed
Create a free watch
All-Access
$25/mo

Every category, fastest eyes

  • 25 active watches
  • All categories
  • Fastest priority scans
  • Alerts to 2 phones
  • Lottery & on-sale deadline calendar
Start with a free watch
Pay-Per-Hunt
$15 one-time

One hunt, no subscription

  • 1 watch, fastest scans
  • Runs a full 45 days
  • Instant SMS alerts
  • Credited toward a membership if you join within 7 days
Start the hunt

Every plan: we watch and alert — you book it yourself, in your own account. Fees pay for monitoring; openings are first-come and can't be guaranteed. Pause free anytime and keep your watch list for next season.

Questions

Straight answers

Is this legit?

Yes. itOpened is a monitoring service, and monitoring is all we do. We watch official booking calendars and alert you when an opening appears. We never book, hold, resell, or transfer anything, we never ask for your booking-site passwords, and every reservation is made by you, in your own account, at the normal price. That structure is deliberate — it's what keeps you, and us, on the right side of every platform's rules.

Do you book the spot for me?

No — and be wary of services that offer to. Booking for you means handing a stranger your account credentials and payment card, and several booking platforms prohibit third-party booking outright. We text you a direct link to the exact opening the second we spot it; the tap-and-book step takes under a minute and stays entirely in your hands.

What if nobody cancels?

Then no alert fires, and your watch simply runs its course — we'll tell you plainly that it ended without an opening. Cancellations are common (people book months ahead and plans change), but they're never certain. Your fee pays for the monitoring, and openings are first-come: no service can guarantee a booking. On a membership, you can point that watch at a new target at no extra cost.

Which parks and restaurants do you cover?

We launched with federal parks and campgrounds plus the most-requested state park systems, and restaurant coverage in the hardest-booking cities — coverage grows adapter by adapter, driven by which places members ask to watch. If a place isn't covered yet, creating a free watch for it is exactly how it gets to the front of the line — and we'll always tell you honestly whether a watch is actively scanning or still in the queue, never pretend otherwise.

How fast are the alerts, really?

Scans run around the clock, and paid plans get faster, priority scanning — the more in-demand the place, the more often it's checked. When a scan spots a match, the text goes out immediately. The honest limit: once a spot is public, anyone can grab it, so the win goes to whoever taps first. That's the entire point of a text over an email.

Can I pause or cancel?

Anytime, in a couple of taps, from your account page — no contracts and no phone call to a retention department. Pausing is free and keeps your watch list saved for next season, which is how most campers use us: loud in spring and summer, quiet in winter.