Tent & Tree
Destinations / Yosemite
Wawona Campground
South-entrance campground along the South Fork Merced, near the Mariposa Grove.
Getting a site here
- Open (2026, tentative)
- All year
- Elevation
- 4,000 ft
- Sites
- 95
- Fee
- $36/night
- Water
- Tap
- RV / trailer max
- 35 ft / 35 ft
- Reservations
- 5 months ahead on the 15th
From the National Park Service's campground table, checked 2026-09-23. Group and horse sites available. In 2026 Loop A takes reservations through Nov 29; Loops B and C close Oct 26.
When does your date go on sale at Wawona? 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, 1192 booked site-nights at Wawona came back up (307 of them Friday or Saturday nights). Of the 1047 that someone rebooked, at least half were gone within 294 minutes, and 218 within an hour.
Latest:
- Mon Oct 26 · Site 025 A · opened Sat 6:45 PM PT, rebooked within 111 min
- Sun Oct 25 · Site 008 A · opened Sat 3:16 PM PT, open until the night arrived
- Fri Oct 30 · Site 042 B · opened Sat 2:30 PM PT, rebooked within 97 min
- Sat Oct 31 · Site 042 B · opened Sat 2:30 PM PT, rebooked within 97 min
- Fri Oct 30 · Site 021 A · opened Sat 1:21 PM PT, rebooked within 6642 min
- Sat Oct 24 · Site 023 A · opened Sat 12:23 PM PT, rebooked within 37 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 →
Wawona 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 or equestrian 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. Cancellations for a single night’s use within 48 hours will not receive a refund, but will not be assessed an additional service fee. 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. No-shows for any type of reservation will be charged a $20 service fee and the first night's fee.
From Wawona'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 Wawona 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.