RA Camping 4+

We had to make a cancellation due to the wildfires and closing of the hiways. This happened within 4 days of our trip and was totally out of our control. We were penalized the same as if we cancelled after the 13 day window regardless of this being completely out of our control. Very disappointed that we were told “we are not authorized to refund your full amount”. Wish there was another way to make reservations, this is ridiculous.

This is a horrible system! State and federal parks should not be allowing such advanced reservations. People should not be allowed to book more than 14 days in any month or 60 days in advance. And not be allowed more than 60 nights in any year.
There should be restrictions that keep track of the individual that books in advance but never shows up! Maybe three strikes you’re out rule, banned for a year. Reserve America should have quite a database and with a little software tweak this can be easily controlled. There are families out there that might get a Friday off and decide to go camping locally for that Friday night and Saturday night but can’t even though nobody is at some of those sites that have been booked a year in advance.
Somebody needs to step up in the state park system and get this corrected instead of business as usual. Remember it’s our tax dollars that support these parks.
Ps;
How can people be giving this 4+ stars when you can never get in a state park for a weekend in Florida in the winter but yet 50% of all parks are taken up by out of State people & Canadians!
How about surveys for state parks from residents of those states only to get a true rating. Its not always about the tourist any more.

When reserving more than one campsite at a time we should only need to enter our demographics one time and the site should remember the details we put in the first time for the next site. Would also be nice if the demographics would just prepopulate to your site reserving each time you sign in to make a reservation.