Your next park day, in one place.
Parkday puts the park, the campsites, the permits, the trails and the conditions together, then tells you within minutes when a full campground opens up. For a first trip or your fiftieth.
Be first in line when Parkday opens.
Full campgrounds open up when plans change, and the site goes to whoever hears first. Parkday is how you hear first. Get on the list and you hear first about Parkday, too.
- First to knowOne email the day Parkday is in Google Play and the App Store.
- Your park, firstTell us where you are headed, and the launch email starts with what Parkday does there.
Site 042, open for Fri 13 to Sun 15 Nov. Book it on Recreation.gov; Parkday does not book.
You are in line.
Planning a trip with someone? Send them the list, so you both hear first.
Link copiedHow Parkday works
Four steps, the same four on every park, campground and trail.
Pick a place
Type a park, a town or an area. Parkday shows what is near it, nearest first.
See itSee what it is like
Weather, air, water, closures and fire, with the source and the time for each one.
See itAdd it to your plan
Trails and campgrounds go into your day. Your plan stays at the bottom of the screen.
See itGet in
Book when sites are open, get a reminder before booking opens, or watch a full campground.
See itFree to start. Pro for the season.
Free is a real taste of Parkday, not a demo. Pro is for the people who are out every month.
Free
- Every park, campground and trail page: weather, air, water, fire and alerts, each with its source
- Cell coverage by carrier, and who manages the land
- Whether a campground is open on your dates
- Parks saved for no signal
- The Park Service's audio tours, stop by stop
- Trails with distance and climb, and reviews
- One cancellation watch and one booking reminder
- One trip plan
Parkday Pro $2.99 a month or $19.99 a year
- Trails and topo maps saved for no signal, with where you are and the wrong-turn alert
- Your day saved for no signal
- Audio tours saved for no signal, each stop playing as you reach it
- Closures, fire and weather warnings pushed during your trip
- A reminder for every campground before booking opens
- Next open campsite anywhere in the US, a year ahead, site by site
- Hike and trip prep: a start-by time against sunset, and what to pack for the hike and the whole trip
- Every trip you are planning, not just one
- Draw your own routes on the map, kept on your phone
- Up to 10 watches: campsites, permits and park entry
In the Parkday app on Google Play and the App Store, with a 7-day free trial on the yearly plan. Cancel any time in your store's subscriptions.
One page instead of a dozen tabs.
Planning a park day usually means Recreation.gov for a site, the park's own pages for alerts and fees, the Weather Service, AirNow, a river gauge, a trail map, a land map and a fishing license page. Parkday reads 27 public sources, 77 kinds of answers, and puts them on one page for each park, each with its source.
Sites, permits and conditions together
The next open campsite and the permit with space sit beside the forecast, air and fire for the same days.
Fish and wildlife from the park's own list
Every fish the park lists, native or not and how common, with the nearest river's temperature and flow.
Whose land you are on
Tap the map to see if it is BLM, a national forest, a park, state or private, and what that agency says about camping.
Every reading names its source
Each number says which agency it came from and when it was read, so you can check it yourself.
Where it comes from
Parks, trails and wildlife
Park pages, hikes, trail lines and climbs, and what lives there.
National Park Service, USGS National Digital Trails, USGS The National Map, NPSpeciesCampgrounds
Which sites are open for your nights, and what each campground has.
Recreation.gov, Recreation.gov RIDB, ReserveCaliforniaWeather
The forecast, warnings, UV, snow and tides.
National Weather Service, EPA UV Index, NRCS SNOTEL, NOAA Tides and CurrentsAir and fire
Air quality now and forecast, fire perimeters and heat seen from space.
AirNow (EPA), OpenAQ, National Interagency Fire Center, NASA FIRMSWater
River flow, depth and water temperature.
USGS water dataLand, places and sounds
Whose land it is, finding a town or an area, and recordings made in the parks.
BLM Surface Management Agency, GeoNames, Census Geocoder, NPS sound librariesIt never books for you
Parkday reads availability and tells you. You book, apply or enter a lottery on the agency's own site.
Your exact location stays on your phone
Distances are worked out on your phone, and the dot on the map is drawn there. A camping search sends only a rough area, about 35 miles across.
Reviews are approved before they show
No sign-in, a short name instead of yours, and every review and photo checked, then approved by a person, with report and block on each.
Every feature, one at a time.
Click through all of Parkday on real screens of the app: parks, campsites, permits, trails, maps, trips and reviews. Then see every data point it reads.