Yosemite National Park · California

Hodgdon Meadow Campground — how to get a site when it's sold out

Overview Hodgdon Meadow campground is located in breathtaking Yosemite National Park in Central California's rugged Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. The site is 25 miles from Yosemite Valley at an elevation of 4,875 feet. Within Yosemite, visitors can gaze upon waterfalls, sheer granite cliffs, deep valleys, grand meadows, ancient giant sequoias, vast wilderness areas and much more.

🏕️ 108 sites 🚐 Standard, Tent only, Group, Walk-to / hike-to
Half Dome with Eastern Yosemite Valley — Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park — the park this campground calls home. Photo: Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Booking Hodgdon Meadow Campground

Sites at Hodgdon Meadow Campground are reserved through Recreation.gov. Sites here can be reserved in advance through the official system, and they are claimed fast — cancellations then trickle back all season, unannounced, at any hour of the day or night.

Site facts

Total sites108
Site typesStandard, Tent only, Group, Walk-to / hike-to
LocationYosemite National Park, CA
Book throughRecreation.gov
Official listingRecreation.gov

The cancellation play at Hodgdon Meadow Campground

Because sites are booked months ahead, a steady share of reservations get cancelled as trips fall through. Each cancellation instantly returns that site and those nights to the official calendar — first-come, first-served, no waitlist, no announcement. Refreshing the booking page yourself, every few minutes for weeks, works in theory. In practice, the people who get these sites are the ones who hear about the opening first.

ItOpened scans the Recreation.gov calendar for Hodgdon Meadow Campground around the clock. When a site matching your dates and your vehicle opens, you get a text with a direct link to it. You book it yourself, in your own account, at the normal price. We never book, hold, or resell — your fee pays for monitoring, and openings are first-come, so speed is the whole game.

Other campgrounds in Yosemite National Park

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Bridalveil Creek CampgroundCancellation alerts available
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Tamarack Flat CampgroundCancellation alerts available
Tuolumne Horse CampsitesCancellation alerts available
Bridalveil Creek Horse CampsitesCancellation alerts available
Wawona Horse CampsitesCancellation alerts available

Page data refreshed 2026-10-29. Site facts come from the official directory listing for Hodgdon Meadow Campground; cancellation statistics come from our own scanning logs.