Open for comment, with a deadline.
Nothing that changes how a campground is run is taking public comment right now, in the 2,149 projects we watch. The clock is the agency’s; when one opens it’s here.
What’s on this page, and what we left off it
When a federal agency proposes to convert a campground to reservation-only, add or raise a fee, close a loop, redevelop it, change its season or hand it to a concessionaire, that’s a comment period, with a deadline and a form. Those windows open and close and almost nobody who camps there hears. This page reads every Forest Service project page, the Park Service’s open-comment list, BLM’s register and the Federal Register, keeps the ones that touch camping, and prints what the agency itself wrote.
The deadline on every row is the agency’s, from its own field, never read out of a notice’s prose: the Forest Service’s comment site prints “Your comments are requested through” a date beside its form, and that sentence is both the open test and the date. A comment page that didn’t answer is counted as unread, never as closed.
A trail, a boat ramp, a ski lift, a timber sale with a campground inside its boundary but no camping action: refused, with the reason, and counted at right. Nothing here is a model’s reading. The rule that admitted each row and the words it rested on are printed on the row.
Listed below
- Forest Service project pages and CARA comment pages
- 0
- Federal Register
- 0
- BLM ePlanning project pages
- 0
- National Park Service PEPC open-for-comment listing
- 0
Each one carries the agency’s own words, a link, the deadline field and the day we read it.
Watched, and left off on purpose
- A camping project with no dated window
- 72
- A comment page that didn’t answer
- 0
- Not a recreation project
- 1,362
- Recreation, but no camping action
- 712
2,149 projects read in all; 2,074 refused by the rule. Counted, not listed.
Nothing open today
2,149 projects watchedWe read 2,149 projects across four agencies on Oct 25, 2026 and none that changes how a campground is run is taking comment right now. The list below says what we hold.
Does a comment do anything?
readers our roadless comment engine has handed to the federal comment form on docket FS-2025-0001, by its own ledger, 0 of them in the last seven days. That’s a count of handoffs to the form, not of comments the agency logged; the agency publishes that count itself when the docket closes. What a comment does is put a question in the decision record that the agency has to answer in writing.
What we left off
2 camping windows closed in the last six months, dated below from the same field. 72 camping projects carry no dated window on the agency’s own comment page today: a project being developed, in analysis, or past its period, and we don’t guess which. 0 comment pages didn’t answer when we read them and will be read again tomorrow.
2,074 projects refused by the rule: 1,362 not a recreation project; 712 recreation, but no camping action. A project the gate refused is one whose name, purpose and description name no campground, campsite, camping, recreation fee, reservation change, concession or season change, and whose text names no campground of ours on that unit.
- September 23, 2026Travel Management; National Forest System LandsForest Service
- June 1, 2026Notice of Realty Action: Recreation and Public Purposes Act Classification; Rapides and LaSalle Parishes, LouisianaBureau of Land Management
How this list is built
Every source behind this page · 4
Every forest’s project page on fs.usda.gov is walked daily and each project the gate passes gets one read of its CARA comment page, where the deadline is the agency’s own “Your comments are requested through” field. The Park Service’s PEPC open-for-comment listing supplies its review-end date. BLM’s register names candidate projects and each project’s own page supplies the participation period. The Federal Register supplies its comment_end_date. Campgrounds are joined by name inside the same unit, or unit-wide where the docket says so; where neither holds the row says we couldn’t name them. The campgrounds that are closed and the ones that still take walk-ups are the other halves of the same argument.