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Joshua Tree National Park  ·  Twentynine Palms, CA

Every site gone by 6 am.
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Joshua Tree's reservable campgrounds vanish in minutes. CampWatch monitors every cancellation at Black Rock, Cottonwood, Indian Cove, and Jumbo Rocks and emails you the moment a site opens.

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386
Reservable sites
6 mo.
Booking window
3M+
Annual visitors
Oct–Apr
Peak season
Why it's hard to book

Joshua Tree sites don't last the morning.

Just two hours from Los Angeles and San Diego, Joshua Tree draws over 3 million visitors a year — yet the park offers fewer than 400 reservable campsites. Spring weekends and holiday weekends consume the entire 6-month booking window within hours of opening.

Peak season runs October through April, and the most sought-after campgrounds don't wait. Black Rock and Indian Cove are routinely gone first; Cottonwood and Jumbo Rocks follow within the same morning. Cancellations post to Recreation.gov in real time and are claimed within seconds.

CampWatch runs continuously across all four campgrounds — Black Rock, Cottonwood, Indian Cove, and Jumbo Rocks — and emails you the instant a site becomes available in your date range. No refreshing. No luck required.

How it works

Three steps to your campsite

01
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02
Set your dates
Pick Joshua Tree, enter your check-in and check-out dates, and choose your match preference.
03
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We monitor Recreation.gov around the clock. You get an email the moment a site opens.
Park details

Joshua Tree at a glance

Location
Twentynine Palms, CA
Campgrounds
Black Rock, Cottonwood, Indian Cove, Jumbo Rocks
Reservable sites
386 sites
Nightly fee
$30 – $35
Best months
Oct – Apr
Hookups
No hookups
Pets
On leash in campgrounds
Reservations
Recreation.gov

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