New Reservation Systems Have Complicated Camping

It was a few seconds after 6:59am. Alina Morse sat before her computer in her Spokane home, already refreshing the website reservation page for Fort Flagler Historical State Park. Across the state—as far as Arizona, actually—her friends and family in 14 other households did the same thing, all hoping to score campsite reservations for the group’s annual July family camp. The result: a big fat zero.

“We were absolutely skunked,” she says, still disappointed weeks later. Not one of the 15 scored a site at the beachfront campground near Port Townsend, even though their preferred weekend had only opened to reservations at 7am.

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