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Plan me 3 days in Yosemite in October, moderate hiker, solo, quiet camping.
3:42 PMOctober's actually one of the best months for Yosemite. Crowds drop, weather's stable. I'm pulling up campgrounds + trails now.
3:42 PMDay 1. Upper Pines (Yosemite Valley) ~$36/night. Hike Lower Yosemite Falls in the afternoon. Day 2. Four Mile Trail up to Glacier Point, 9.6mi round trip, 3,200ft gain. Day 3. Drive Tioga Rd, Tuolumne Meadows, easy lakes loop before heading out.
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Where you want to go (or just the region), how many days, who's coming, what you can handle. Plain English. No forms.
Specific campgrounds (real prices, real availability), trails that match your level, the best month to go, what's open, what's closed.
Ranger never books for you and never asks for your Recreation.gov login. We deep-link you straight to the booking page so you book it yourself.
WHY RANGER
Recreation.gov is a database, not a guide. Best-time tables are buried. Trail data is scattered across Strava, AllTrails, NPS PDFs. There's no one place that takes your actual constraints and gives you a workable plan in 30 seconds.
Ranger is that one place. Ask it anything camping-related: a 4-day shoulder-season trip, dog-friendly stargazing within 3 hours of Denver, when to hit Glacier so the high road is still open. It uses real NPS, OSM, and Recreation.gov data, picks a model based on your question, calls the right tools, and answers.
Popular campgrounds book out months in advance, but cancellations happen every day. Ranger watches Recreation.gov every 30 seconds and texts you the moment a site opens in your date range. Free. No account.
Set up alertsFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Yes. Ranger plans trips, compares parks, finds dog-friendly options, picks the right month for the weather you want, recommends trails by difficulty and length, suggests gear lists, explains park alerts, and pulls real availability from Recreation.gov. If the question is camping-adjacent, try it.
Ranger has 51,755 campgrounds, every NPS park, OSM trail data, Open-Meteo climate normals, and live Recreation.gov availability indexed in Postgres + PostGIS. When you ask a question, the AI calls the right tool (search campgrounds, get best time, fetch park info, search trails) and grounds its answer in the real data.
No. Ranger is notify-only. We never ask for your Recreation.gov login, never access your account, and never make reservations on your behalf. When the planner picks a campground, you get a deep link to its Recreation.gov booking page. You book it yourself.
The planner is free to try, no signup. There's no premium tier yet. If we add one it will be for things like saved trips, custom alerts, and unlimited planning, while the core "ask a question, get a plan" stays free. No ads, no data selling.
Still there, just moved to /alerts. Same flow: pick a campground, pick your dates, enter your phone, get a text the second a site opens. Free, no account. STOP unsubscribes.
Phones are HMAC-hashed for lookups and Fernet-encrypted for sending. Personalization data (what you've planned, what you've watched) stays private and is never sold or used for ads. You can inspect everything at /api/me/preferences and wipe it at /api/me/forget.