USDA Forest Service · Vermont

Green Mountain & Finger Lakes National Forests campsites, sold out? Here's how spots come back.

📍 Vermont 🏕️ 9 campgrounds

How booking at Green Mountain & Finger Lakes National Forests works

Reservations for Green Mountain & Finger Lakes National Forests are made through Recreation.gov. In peak season, the most popular campgrounds are typically claimed within minutes of each release — which is why the park reads as "sold out" for most of the year.

Sold out is not final, though. People book far ahead and plans change, so cancellations return to the official calendar throughout the season — with no announcement, at any hour. A cancelled site is bookable by whoever sees it first.

Booking facts

Managed byUSDA Forest Service
Book throughRecreation.gov
Campgrounds9
Official listingRecreation.gov

Campgrounds in Green Mountain & Finger Lakes National Forests

Set a watch on the whole park, or go straight to the campground you want — each one has its own availability and cancellation pattern:

Hapgood Pond32 sites
Moosalamoo Campground20 sites
Chittenden Brook Campground18 sites
Grout Pond Campground18 sites
Silver Lake Campground16 sites
Greendale Campground11 sites
Backbone Horse Campground1 sites
Blueberry Patch Campground1 sites
Potomac Group Campground1 sites

How itOpened watches Green Mountain & Finger Lakes National Forests

We scan the official Recreation.gov calendar for Green Mountain & Finger Lakes National Forests around the clock. The second a site that matches your dates and equipment opens up, you get a text with a direct link to that exact site. You book it yourself, in your own account, at the normal price. We never book, hold, or resell anything — monitoring is all we do, and it's what your fee pays for. Openings are first-come, so a text beats an email every time.

Page data refreshed 2026-10-29. Availability facts come from the official directory listing for Green Mountain & Finger Lakes National Forests; cancellation statistics come from our own scanning logs.