ReservecaliforniaReviews of reservecalifornia.com

Another government waste of money. Seems like the site is using IIS/ASP platform which NO ONE uses this days and it is filled with bugs. When I click on reserve, sometimes it is sends me to a wrong park or create another nested screen inside. I only used it for 5 mins and experienced 3 bugs/crashes. If I design a website like this, I would get fired. Campsites are coded with 4 letter words and I cannot seem to translate that to actual campsite names found in Google maps or camp brochure.

I have a loathing hatred for the Reserve California website. It’s glitchy, it puts the user into futile loops of wasted time, and just when you think you have paid and it has reserved your camping site (after hours of trying)...there is no record that it actually happened. We work hard and we just want to go camping with family to rest and get a break from the “hamster wheel”. The state’s site is a completely disrespectful and negligent disservice to the people of California and those visiting from other states. My family just wants to go camping this Summer...California, can you please contract with a private sector company that knows what they are doing and fix the site? Have you seen the reviews? Government inefficiency as expected...total fail. Thank you for trying, I guess. PS: Please get rid of the four Capchas that are entirely unnecessary. They are frustrating and waste more than half of the time on the countdown clock that we have to rush through to “secure” our reservation...that we never really secure.

Reserve California is still very flawed. 2019 was supposed to be an improved version. The major problem is campsite reservation holders have ability to change the name of the campsite recipient. This means they can book the site and sell it to someone else. This problem is rampant and seems like an obvious fix. Also, they book the sites for early in the week six months in advance. Then just modify it to extend thru the weekend. Total BS.....

I booked a cabin for two nights near Humboldt. I had a receipt and a confirmation number. My two sons and I drove 6 hours to the campsite only to find that somebody else had also booked our cabin. There was no available space in the entire park and the staff at the park had no documentation showing that we were arriving. We weren't given a refund so we ended up staying in a dirt budget motel in Eureka and driving home the next day. The system is poorly thought out. Clearly the work of someone with a low IQ because the problems that plagie this system are common sense for most people. It should be dismantled today and the people that spearheading it's creation should be put in prison for treason.

Terrible wasted several hours of my life trying to reserve an available ada site. The website would collect our information but not reserve our site yet it is still listed as available. I’ve reserved campsites everywhere and this is by far the worst system. California taxpayers are getting ripped off.

Absolutely impossible to get a camping site. I bet that there are some third party vendors using scripts to get all the sites.

Terrible reservation site. For days I have been logging on no later than 7:45, refreshing getting ready for the 8:00 mind blowing experience if trying to get a camp site. On numerous occasions I have actually had sites in my cart, on the timer clock, good I have a site, now go find another one for my parents. Get another one, put it in my cart, go to check out and WHAM, first site is gone!!! So finally I call and speak to an agent only to be told that having a site in your cart and on the clock does not guarantee the site!!!! Like WHAAAAAT? Clock says says 14 minutes to complete transaction, lie!!!! Even has a tab to continue shopping, well do so at your risk. Reserve America was a lot better. Now you have to book out a week in advance (if your lucky enough to even get a site) then cancel the first 4 nites later on down the road in order just to enjoy a 3 day weekend. Ridiculous!!!!

1. The mission is to hit the reserve key before thousands of other camper bees trying to do the same thing. Follow these rules and your chances to hit the lottery may improve. 2. Have a list of the sites you are interested in that will become available at 8 am. 3. Open the reservation page that shows the sites you are interested in. 4. Logon to reservecalifornia and enter your user/pass. Do this no later than 0745 because the site gets busy and may not let you on. 5. Reduce your screen size to 50% using the zoom feature (windows 10) accessible thru the three dots in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Refresh the screen. This allows you to see more of the reservation screen. 6. At 0758, click on any pink spot with an x on. this will bring up the 1st reservation screen with a button that says “refresh availability”. Reserve California does not automatically refresh at 0800. 7. At 0800 exactly, click refresh button on this smaller screen. 8. Grab your spot when it goes green. 9. Who knows, you might get lucky.