Big Bend Group Sites — how to get a site when it's sold out

Booking Big Bend Group Sites

Sites at Big Bend Group Sites 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 sites	3
Site types	Group
Location	Moab, UT
Book through	Recreation.gov
Official listing	Recreation.gov

The cancellation play at Big Bend Group Sites

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 Big Bend Group Sites 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 Moab Field Office (BLM)

North Klondike Campground	Cancellation alerts available
Courthouse Rock Campground	Cancellation alerts available
Gold Bar Group Sites	Cancellation alerts available
Lower Onion Creek Group Sites	Cancellation alerts available
Dewey Bridge Group Sites	Cancellation alerts available
Goose Island Group Sites	Cancellation alerts available
Upper Onion Creek Group Site	Cancellation alerts available
Hittle Bottom Group Site	Cancellation alerts available
Kings Bottom Group Site	Cancellation alerts available

Page data refreshed 2026-10-29. Site facts come from the official directory listing for Big Bend Group Sites; cancellation statistics come from our own scanning logs.