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What is open this week, what opens next, what closes

As of Oct 13, 2026 · 1,103 camps carry an agency season record, of 19,298 camp pages · the dates come from the agency’s own words, parsed

868 open this week; 110 open next (spring); 55 close by Nov 30. Camps with no season record are not here: no record is not “open”. Every camp page with a record shows a 12-month strip and re-checks the calendar the day you look; the map grays out the ones closed today; the season-changes feed (RSS) lists the last and next 7 days.

Still open this week

868 camps have an agency window that is open on Oct 13, 2026 and still open on Oct 19: 123 with a season end date (listed, soonest first) and 745 open year-round or with no closing date in the record (under each state, one tap to open). Camps whose window ends inside the week are in the closings below.

Alaska — 3 camps open this week

3 more camps: open year-round or with no closing date in the record

Arkansas — 5 camps open this week

5 more camps: open year-round or with no closing date in the record

Arizona — 1 camp open this week

1 more camp: open year-round or with no closing date in the record

California — 3 camps open this week

2 more camps: open year-round or with no closing date in the record

Colorado — 6 camps open this week

  • to Oct 31 Lynx Pass season runs through Oct 31 — USFSSnow at the nearest comparable station:
  • to Nov 8 North Fork Poudre season runs through Nov 8 — USFSSnow at the nearest comparable station:
4 more camps: open year-round or with no closing date in the record

Florida — 1 camp open this week

1 more camp: open year-round or with no closing date in the record

Idaho — 18 camps open this week

11 more camps: open year-round or with no closing date in the record

Indiana — 1 camp open this week

1 more camp: open year-round or with no closing date in the record

Michigan — 35 camps open this week

Minnesota — 1 camp open this week

1 more camp: open year-round or with no closing date in the record

Montana — 20 camps open this week

17 more camps: open year-round or with no closing date in the record

North Carolina — 46 camps open this week

3 more camps: open year-round or with no closing date in the record

Nebraska — 8 camps open this week

  • to Nov 1 Lake North Park season runs through Nov 1 — Loup River Public Power District
  • to Nov 1 Loup Park / Lake Babcock season runs through Nov 1 — Loup River Public Power District
  • to Nov 1 Powerhouse Park season runs through Nov 1 — Loup River Public Power District
  • to Nov 1 Tailrace Park season runs through Nov 1 — Loup River Public Power District
4 more camps: open year-round or with no closing date in the record

New Hampshire — 2 camps open this week

2 more camps: open year-round or with no closing date in the record

New Mexico — 7 camps open this week

6 more camps: open year-round or with no closing date in the record

Nevada — 2 camps open this week

2 more camps: open year-round or with no closing date in the record

New York — 614 camps open this week

614 more camps: open year-round or with no closing date in the record

Oregon — 4 camps open this week

2 more camps: open year-round or with no closing date in the record

Pennsylvania — 1 camp open this week

1 more camp: open year-round or with no closing date in the record

Tennessee — 3 camps open this week

3 more camps: open year-round or with no closing date in the record

Virginia — 3 camps open this week

3 more camps: open year-round or with no closing date in the record

Washington — 2 camps open this week

2 more camps: open year-round or with no closing date in the record

Wisconsin — 8 camps open this week

Wyoming — 74 camps open this week

57 more camps: open year-round or with no closing date in the record

Opens next

110 camps are outside their agency window as of Oct 13, 2026 and the record gives the day it opens again. Soonest first within each state. The windows repeat every year and the record names no year, so these are the dates to plan a spring trip around, not a promise for one year.

Alaska — 2 camps to plan around

California — 1 camp to plan around

  • May 1 Lumsden Bridge opens that day, every year, per the agency window — USFS

Colorado — 14 camps to plan around

  • May 8 Green Ridge opens that day, every year, per the agency window — USFSSnow at the nearest comparable station:
  • May 15 Kelly Dahl opens that day, every year, per the agency window — USFSSnow at the nearest comparable station:
  • May 15 Meeker Park opens that day, every year, per the agency window — USFSSnow at the nearest comparable station:
  • May 15 Narrows opens that day, every year, per the agency window — USFS
  • May 22 Idlewild opens that day, every year, per the agency window — USFSSnow at the nearest comparable station:
  • May 22 Sleeping Elephant opens that day, every year, per the agency window — USFSSnow at the nearest comparable station:
  • May 23 Cement Creek opens that day, every year, per the agency window — USFSSnow at the nearest comparable station:
  • May 23 Pitkin opens that day, every year, per the agency window — USFSSnow at the nearest comparable station:
  • May 25 May Queen opens that day, every year, per the agency window — USFSSnow at the nearest comparable station:
  • Jun 5 South Fork opens that day, every year, per the agency window — USFSSnow at the nearest comparable station:
  • Jun 5 Sugarloaf opens that day, every year, per the agency window — USFSSnow at the nearest comparable station:
  • Jun 12 Tunnel opens that day, every year, per the agency window — USFSSnow at the nearest comparable station:
  • Jun 26 Cottonwood Lake opens that day, every year, per the agency window — USFSSnow at the nearest comparable station:
  • Jun 26 Pawnee opens that day, every year, per the agency window — USFSSnow at the nearest comparable station:

Idaho — 30 camps to plan around

Michigan — 2 camps to plan around

Montana — 14 camps to plan around

Oklahoma — 44 camps to plan around

Washington — 1 camp to plan around

Wyoming — 2 camps to plan around

  • May 16 Springer/Bump Sullivan WHMA Campground opens that day, every year, per the agency window — Wyoming Game & Fish Commission
  • Jun 7 Lake Owen opens that day, every year, per the agency window — USFSSnow at the nearest comparable station:

Closings

55 camps have an agency window that ends between Oct 13 and Nov 30. The day is the first day the camp is outside its window.

California — 1 closing

Colorado — 4 closings

  • Oct 16 Meadows closes that day — USFSSnow at the nearest comparable station:
  • Oct 16 Seedhouse closes that day — USFSSnow at the nearest comparable station:
  • Nov 1 Lynx Pass closes that day — USFSSnow at the nearest comparable station:
  • Nov 9 North Fork Poudre closes that day — USFSSnow at the nearest comparable station:

Idaho — 8 closings

Michigan — 27 closings

Montana — 1 closing

Nebraska — 4 closings

Oregon — 1 closing

Wyoming — 9 closings

Snow at the nearest comparable station. 83 of these 1,103 camps sit at 6,500 ft or higher with an NRCS SNOTEL station within 20 miles and within 1,500 ft of the camp’s elevation; their line ends with that station’s latest snow depth, its date, the distance and the height difference. A camp with no station inside both bounds gets no snow line at all. The depth comes from a daily pull and is judged against today’s date when you load the page: a reading more than 3 days old is not shown. A reading at one station is not the snow at the camp: aspect, trees and elevation change it.

How this is read. Each camp’s agency season text is parsed into a window (data/conditions.py). The windows are yearly month-and-day ranges with no year, so “open this week” means the window is open on the as-of date and still open six days later; it is not a live report from the gate. 116 camps carry a record that cannot be read as a plain date (part of an area, exceptions, or no dates); they are in none of the lists above, and their camp page shows the agency line. The same window is checked for every day to find the closings. “About” dates (mid-May, early June) are read at their nearest day and the camp page says so. The count above is 1,103 camps with a record; the engine was last applied for 2026-09-27. Season windows are a plan, not a promise: snow, fire and gates move them, so read the agency line on the camp page before you drive.