Tent & Tree
Destinations / Yosemite
North Pines Campground
Quietest of the Valley's Pines campgrounds, tucked between the Merced River and Tenaya Creek.
Getting a site here
- Open (2026, tentative)
- Apr 21 – Oct 26
- Elevation
- 4,000 ft
- Sites
- 81
- Fee
- $36/night
- Water
- Tap
- RV / trailer max
- 40 ft / 35 ft
- Reservations
- Lottery or 5 months ahead on the 15th
From the National Park Service's campground table, checked 2026-09-23. The NPS lists North Pines as lottery or five-months-ahead booking.
When does your date go on sale at North Pines? 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, 461 booked site-nights at North Pines came back up (31 of them Friday or Saturday nights). Of the 459 that someone rebooked, at least half were gone within 65 minutes, and 213 within an hour.
Latest:
- Sat Oct 24 · Site 207 · opened Sat 3:52 PM PT, rebooked within 66 min
- Sun Oct 25 · Site 207 · opened Sat 3:52 PM PT, rebooked within 66 min
- Sat Oct 24 · Site 323 · opened Sat 3:44 PM PT, rebooked within 16 min
- Sun Oct 25 · Site 200 · opened Sat 3:37 PM PT, rebooked within 39 min
- Sat Oct 24 · Site 303 · opened Sat 3:37 PM PT, rebooked within 31 min
- Sun Oct 25 · Site 309 · opened Sat 3:37 PM PT, rebooked within 39 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 →
North Pines 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:
Cancellations more than 48 hours in advance of arrival date only incur a $10 transaction fee. Within 48 hours, $10 and the first night's fee are charged (Exception: 1 night reservations do not incur an additional $10 fee, but do not receive a refund). No-shows will be assessed a $20 service fee along with the loss of the first night's fee.
From North Pines'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 North Pines 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.