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Hodgdon Meadow Campground

Just inside the Big Oak Flat entrance. Good base for Hetch Hetchy and the north side of the park.

Get me a site at Hodgdon Meadow Check Recreation.gov ↗

Getting a site here

Open (2026, tentative)
All year
Elevation
4,900 ft
Sites
100
Fee
$36/night
Water
Tap
RV / trailer max
35 ft / 30 ft
Reservations
5 months ahead on the 15th, Apr 15 – Oct 26

From the National Park Service's campground table, checked 2026-09-23. Just inside the Big Oak Flat entrance. First-come, first-served in winter.

When does your date go on sale at Hodgdon Meadow? The Yosemite release calendar →

Popular weekends here book up soon after they open on Recreation.gov. After that, the realistic path is cancellations.

Cancellations we've caught here

In the last 30 days, 760 booked site-nights at Hodgdon Meadow came back up (226 of them Friday or Saturday nights). Of the 588 that someone rebooked, at least half were gone within 359 minutes, and 106 within an hour.

Latest:

  • Sun Oct 25 · Site 020: HIKE-IN Hodgdon Campground · opened Sat 6:30 PM PT, open until the night arrived
  • Sun Oct 25 · Site 076 Hodgdon Campground · opened Sat 3:52 PM PT, open until the night arrived
  • Sun Oct 25 · Site 002: HIKE-IN Hodgdon Campground · opened Sat 2:28 PM PT, rebooked within 255 min
  • Sun Oct 25 · Site 012 Hodgdon Campground · opened Sat 1:39 PM PT, open until the night arrived
  • Sun Oct 25 · Site 002: HIKE-IN Hodgdon Campground · opened Sat 12:51 PM PT, rebooked within 95 min
  • Sat Oct 24 · Site 082: HIKE-IN Hodgdon Campground · opened Sat 9:30 AM PT, rebooked within 34 min

From our own checks of every site here, lately about every 20 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 →

Hodgdon Meadow Campground cancellation policy

Cancel more than 48 hours before your arrival date and you lose only the $10 fee; inside 48 hours you also lose the first night. The campground's own rule, as Recreation.gov publishes it:

Cancellation of individual site reservations will be charged a $10 service fee. If the cancellation is within 48 hours of the arrival date, the first night's fee will also be charged. Cancellation of a group site reservation will incur a $10.00 service fee plus the first night’s use fee when the reservation is cancelled within 14 days of the scheduled arrival date. Cancellations for a single night’s use will not be assessed a service fee. No-shows for any type of reservation will be charged a $20 service fee and the first night's fee.

From Hodgdon Meadow'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 Hodgdon Meadow 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.