status.live campgrounds MCP Server

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status.live campgrounds is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Which of 4,200 national park and national forest campgrounds are open today, with booking links.

Uptime history 7 days of history

7 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

321 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check status.live campgrounds every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add campgrounds --transport http https://status.live/campgrounds/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "campgrounds": {
      "url": "https://status.live/campgrounds/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.campgrounds]
url = "https://status.live/campgrounds/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "campgrounds": {
      "url": "https://status.live/campgrounds/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "campgrounds": {
      "url": "https://status.live/campgrounds/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

campgrounds

campgrounds_find_near

National Park Service and Forest Service campgrounds nearest a latitude/longitude, with distance, whether each is open today and its booking link. NPS campgrounds are open or closed by the park's published schedule; Forest Service ones by the status each forest lists (refreshed every 6 hours). "not listed" means the forest gives no status: unknown, not closed.

campgrounds_get_status

One campground: whether it is open today, the season, how to book it (Recreation.gov or the concessioner, or first come first served), fees, rules, its official page, and a model weather forecast. Accepts an id (e.g. "upper-pines") or a name. NPS campgrounds are open or closed by the park's published schedule; Forest Service ones by the status each forest lists (refreshed every 6 hours). "not listed" means the forest gives no status: unknown, not closed.

campgrounds_search

Find National Park Service and Forest Service campgrounds by name, id, park or national forest (e.g. "Yosemite", "Shasta-Trinity"), or state ("CO", "Colorado"), with whether each is open today and its booking link. Returns ids for campgrounds_get_status. NPS campgrounds are open or closed by the park's published schedule; Forest Service ones by the status each forest lists (refreshed every 6 hours). "not listed" means the forest gives no status: unknown, not closed.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://status.live/campgrounds/mcp	streamable-http	answering	89 ms	11 min ago

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status.live campgrounds — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can status.live campgrounds do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: campgrounds_find_near, campgrounds_get_status, campgrounds_search. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is status.live campgrounds working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 321 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect status.live campgrounds?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does status.live campgrounds need an API key?

No. status.live campgrounds completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is status.live campgrounds?

It answers our handshake in 321 ms on average, which is faster than 44% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.