1Pick a parkType its name — BC to Nova Scotia, Washington to Wisconsin.
2Set your datesExact nights, or "any 2 together in this window." Party size optional.
3Get the pingA Discord message the moment a site opens. You book it. Done.
CampFromTheCouch
🏕️ Mount Assiniboine — availability! @you
• Magog Lake site 3 — Fri Aug 14
• Og Lake site 7 — Sat Aug 15
Book: camping.bcparks.ca
What an alert looks like in Discord (example).
The whole idea
Popular campgrounds sell out months ahead, but cancellations reappear every day — for a few minutes. CampFromTheCouch checks the official reservation systems around the clock and pings your Discord the moment a site you want opens up. You book it on the official site like normal — we never book on your behalf, hold sites, or touch your park account. We're just the friend who happened to be refreshing the page at the right moment.
1 · Watch a campsite
Pick a park by name and tell us what you're after:
Exact dates — "Aug 14 & 15 at Mount Assiniboine."
Flexible window — "any 2 nights together between Aug 16 and 30."
Party & pads — 4 people on 2 pads only matches sites that fit.
Equipment — filter to sites that take your tent, van, or trailer.
Specific sites — watch just Magog Lake and Og Lake, ignore the rest.
Self-cleaning — watches retire themselves when the date arrives.
See everything as a list or a calendar, and edit any watch anytime.
2 · Or find what's open near you
"What's open around here in the next week?" Use your location (or name a park) and Near me shows the closest parks with availability in the next 7 nights, on a map — great for a spur-of-the-moment trip.
3 · Follow parks & catch the go-live supporter
Follow the parks you love to see their booking seasons on one calendar. When a park's reservations are about to open for the year, we ping you a week ahead, the night before, and the moment they go live — so you're ready when the whole season drops at once.
4 · See how full a park is
Before you commit a watch, check a park's fullness — the share of nights booked, plus a night-by-night calendar so you can see exactly where the gaps are. Open nights link straight to the official booking page; a full night you can start watching in one click.
5 · Plan a trip with friends supporter
Add friends and start a Planning Group: everyone marks the nights they can't make, says how big a pad they need and whether they'll share, and the group sees the nights you all overlap and how many sites that takes — then holds sites together when reservations open so nobody double-books.
Take it with you
Install CampFromTheCouch as an app (it's a PWA — "Add to Home Screen"), and subscribe your watches, group trips, and availability to your own calendar as a private, read-only feed (Google/Apple Calendar) from Settings.
How you're notified
Free instant Discord pings (set up a private server with one channel — a minute's work). Point different watches at different channels, or @mention yourself. Email is coming for the Discord-averse. One ping per opening; another if it's taken and reopens.
Polite by design
Identical watches share one check, checks are rate-limited with random jitter and per-site caps, and everything backs off automatically when a booking site has a bad day. Being a good neighbour to the park systems is a design rule here, not an afterthought — and it's why we grow by invite.