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Giant Gap Campground
Sugar Pine Reservoir campground in the Tahoe National Forest foothills.
Getting a site here
Popular weekends here book up soon after they open on Recreation.gov. After that, the realistic path is cancellations.
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Cancellations we've caught here
In the last 30 days, 115 booked site-nights at Giant Gap came back up (65 of them Friday or Saturday nights). Of the 49 that someone rebooked, at least half were gone within 357 minutes, and 7 within an hour.
Latest:
- Sat Nov 14 · Site 018 · opened Thu 9:49 AM PT, open at our last check
- Sat Oct 24 · Site 029 · opened Wed 6:26 PM PT, rebooked within 168 min
- Sat Oct 24 · Site 015 · opened Wed 10:09 AM PT, closed
- Mon Oct 26 · Site 022 · opened Wed 8:28 AM PT, closed
- Tue Oct 27 · Site 022 · opened Wed 8:28 AM PT, open at our last check
- Wed Oct 28 · Site 022 · opened Wed 8:28 AM PT, open at our last check
From our own checks of every site here, lately about every 10 minutes for nights this month and next, less often further out. A site that opens and is rebooked between two checks isn't counted, so these are floors, and each time is a bound. Cancellations at every campground we log →
Giant Gap Campground cancellation policy
Cancel by 11:59 p.m. two days before you arrive (Wednesday night for a Friday arrival) and you lose only the $10 fee; after that you also lose the first night. That's Recreation.gov's site-wide rule.
From Giant Gap's Recreation.gov page, read Sep 30, 2026. How cancellations work, and how far ahead the cancelled nights are →
Set an alert for your dates and we check every site in Giant Gap every 30 seconds. When one opens, you get an email with a direct link to the site and night — you book it yourself, in your own Recreation.gov account.