Guadalupe Mountains National Park · Texas

Pine Springs Campground — how to get a site when it's sold out

Overview The Pine Springs RV campground is not a traditional campground. Be aware, this is a paved parking lot. The area shares a popular and busy trailhead accessing four major trails.

🏕️ 35 sites 🚐 Tent only, RV, Group

Booking Pine Springs Campground

Sites at Pine Springs 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 sites35
Site typesTent only, RV, Group
Book throughRecreation.gov
Official listingRecreation.gov

The cancellation play at Pine Springs 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 Pine Springs 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 Guadalupe Mountains National Park

Dog Canyon CampgroundCancellation alerts available
Frijole Horse Corral CampgroundCancellation alerts available

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