John Day Lock and Dam, Lake Umatilla · Washington

Plymouth Park — how to get a site when it's sold out

Overview Plymouth Campground is located by the small town of Plymouth, Washington. The day use area and boat launch are on a small island on Lake Umatilla on the Columbia River. Popular activities in the area include fishing, swimming, boating, water skiing and hunting.

🏕️ 33 sites 🚐 Standard, Group

Booking Plymouth Park

Sites at Plymouth Park 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 sites33
Site typesStandard, Group
HookupsElectric hookups at some sites
LocationPlymouth, WA
Book throughRecreation.gov
Official listingRecreation.gov

The cancellation play at Plymouth Park

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 Plymouth Park 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.

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