Green Mountain & Finger Lakes National Forests · Vermont
Overview Backbone Horse Campground is a small, semi-primitive campground designed primarily for campers or picnickers that bring horses with them.
Sites at Backbone Horse 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.
| Total sites | 1 |
|---|---|
| Book through | Recreation.gov |
| Official listing | Recreation.gov |
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 Backbone Horse 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.
| Hapgood Pond | Cancellation alerts available |
|---|---|
| Moosalamoo Campground | Cancellation alerts available |
| Chittenden Brook Campground | Cancellation alerts available |
| Grout Pond Campground | Cancellation alerts available |
| Silver Lake Campground | Cancellation alerts available |
| Greendale Campground | Cancellation alerts available |
| Blueberry Patch Campground | Cancellation alerts available |
| Potomac Group Campground | Cancellation alerts available |
Page data refreshed 2026-10-29. Site facts come from the official directory listing for Backbone Horse Campground; cancellation statistics come from our own scanning logs.