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Kirk Creek Campground
Bluff-top sites above the Pacific on the Big Sur coast. Every site has an ocean view.
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Getting a site here
Popular weekends here book up soon after they open on Recreation.gov. After that, the realistic path is cancellations.
When does your date go on sale at Kirk Creek? Find the release day →
Cancellations we've caught here
In the last 30 days, 716 booked site-nights at Kirk Creek came back up (85 of them Friday or Saturday nights). Of the 627 that someone rebooked, at least half were gone within 308 minutes, and 108 within an hour.
Latest:
- Thu Nov 12 · Site 026 · opened Sat 1:38 AM PT, rebooked within 567 min
- Wed Nov 11 · Site 013 · opened Fri 7:53 PM PT, rebooked within 115 min
- Thu Nov 12 · Site 013 · opened Fri 7:53 PM PT, rebooked within 115 min
- Fri Nov 13 · Site 013 · opened Fri 7:53 PM PT, rebooked within 115 min
- Sat Nov 14 · Site 013 · opened Fri 7:53 PM PT, rebooked within 115 min
- Wed Oct 28 · Site 029 · opened Fri 6:43 PM PT, rebooked within 1153 min
From our own checks of every site here, lately about every 15 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 →
The 7am release here
Arrivals on Saturday, May 1, 2027 went on sale at 7am Pacific on Sunday, November 1. 30 of its 30 sites were already reserved, by stays that started on an earlier night. That left nothing to sell.
From our own reads just before 7:00 and through the morning; each time is when we looked. Every campground's release →
Kirk Creek 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 Kirk Creek'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 Kirk Creek 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.
Read before you book
- How Recreation.gov cancellations actually work (and when sold-out sites open up) — Sold out on Recreation.gov rarely means sold out for good. The fee rules decide when people cancel, and knowing them tells you when to look.