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Plaskett Creek Campground
Grassy meadow campground across from Sand Dollar Beach on the south Big Sur coast.
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 Plaskett Creek? Find the release day →
Cancellations we've caught here
In the last 30 days, 521 booked site-nights at Plaskett Creek came back up (168 of them Friday or Saturday nights). Of the 312 that someone rebooked, at least half were gone within 675 minutes, and 41 within an hour.
Latest:
- Tue Dec 22 · Site 021 · opened Sat 8:07 PM PT, open at our last check
- Wed Dec 23 · Site 021 · opened Sat 8:07 PM PT, open at our last check
- Thu Oct 29 · Site GS1 · opened Sat 3:03 PM PT, open at our last check
- Fri Oct 30 · Site GS1 · opened Sat 3:03 PM PT, open at our last check
- Sat Oct 31 · Site GS1 · opened Sat 3:03 PM PT, open at our last check
- Mon Nov 16 · Site 022 · opened Sat 1:56 PM PT, open at our last check
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 38 sites were already reserved, by stays that started on an earlier night. Of the 8 sites that went on sale, 8 were still open at our 7:17 AM read.
From our own reads just before 7:00 and through the morning; each time is when we looked. Every campground's release →
Plaskett 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 Plaskett 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 Plaskett 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.