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PermitCast · live scanner data

4,220,436

availability scans since July 2026

Every one of them asked a booking system the same question: is anything open yet? These are the answers.

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What are the odds on yours?

Pick one of the permits we have a PermitCast for.

71 of 71 permits

King Range Lost Coast Trail Overnight Permit

Ranked 1 of 71 by the next 7 days

Next 7 days

75–85%

Good chance

12 completed 7-day windows · 14 weeks with scans

Next 14 days

70–80%

Good chance

6 completed 14-day windows · 14 weeks with scans

Where it sits among all 71

0%100%

Each range comes from a handful of completed windows.

How long you have

An Enchantments Core Zone Permit opening is usually gone inside 3 minutes

We timed every opening from the scan that first saw it to the scan that found it gone. On the permits we can time finely enough, most were taken well inside the hour.

0%25%50%75%100%015304560% still unclaimed, minutes after we caught itEnchantments Core Zone Permit: 100% unclaimed when we caught itEnchantments Core Zone Permit: half were taken inside 3 minutesEnchantments Core Zone Permit: 10% still unclaimed at 60 minutes

3 min

Enchantments Core Zone Permit

90% gone within the hour · 58 openings

Dots are measured points: the start, the median, and the share still open at 60 minutes. The line between them is drawn straight, not modelled. Each median is published as an upper bound, so the real figure is that or faster. Only permits timed finely enough qualify: a figure needs measurement resolution under 15 minutes and at least 10 openings that stayed gone. The full rule.

The spread

The odds are not the same on every permit

Every permit we have scanned long enough, ranked by the chance we catch it opening in the next seven days. Each bar is a range, because the honest answer is a range.

  1. King Range Lost Coast Trail Overnight75–85%
  2. Mount St. Helens Climbing75–85%
  3. Murphy Hogback A Campsite65–75%
  4. Enchantments Core Zone65–75%
  5. Idaho Wild Rivers Middle Fork Salmon River65–75%
  6. Lodgepole High Sierra Trail65–75%
  7. Sequoia & Kings Canyon High Sierra Trail65–75%
  8. Vermilion Cliffs Coyote Buttes South65–75%
  9. Zion The Narrows Top-Down65–75%
  10. Dead Horse Point Moenkopi Yurts60–70%
  11. Dead Horse Point Wingate Hike-In Tent Sites60–70%
  12. Dead Horse Point Wingate Yurts60–70%
  13. Inyo Mt. Whitney Mountaineer's Route60–70%
  14. Mt Whitney Trail Crest Exit60–70%
  15. Conundrum Hot Springs60–70%
  16. Mount Tamalpais Steep Ravine Environmental Camp60–70%
  17. Sequoia & Kings Canyon Rae Lakes Loop60–70%
  18. Snow Canyon Hike-In Camping Sites60–70%
  19. Lyell Canyon (Donohue Pass eligible)60–70%
  20. Big Spring Canyon55–65%
  21. Chesler Park55–65%
  22. Elephant Canyon55–65%
  23. Lost Canyon55–65%
  24. Peekaboo55–65%
  25. Broken Top50–60%
  26. Havasupai Campground50–60%
  27. Kearsarge Pass (JMT)50–60%
  28. Piute Pass (North Lake)50–60%
  29. Maroon Bells-Snowmass Four Pass Loop50–60%
  30. Mount Rainier Wonderland Trail50–60%
  31. Glacier Point to Little Yosemite Valley50–60%
  32. Happy Isles to Past LYV (Donohue Pass eligible)50–60%
  33. Salt Creek45–55%
  34. Wooden Shoe Canyon45–55%
  35. North Cascades Backcountry45–55%
  36. Cedar Grove Bubbs Creek45–55%
  37. Bishop Pass (JMT)40–50%
  38. JMT South of Devils Postpile40–50%
  39. Little Lakes Valley40–50%
  40. Sequoia & Kings Canyon Mount Whitney Day Hike40–50%
  41. Sequoia & Kings Canyon Mount Whitney Overnight40–50%
  42. Arches Fiery Furnace Day-Use35–45%
  43. Kawishiwi Lake (EP37)35–45%
  44. Big Pine Creek North Fork35–45%
  45. JMT North of Devils Postpile35–45%
  46. Lamarck Lakes35–45%
  47. Shadow Creek (Agnew Meadow)35–45%
  48. Olympic Enchanted Valley35–45%
  49. Happy Isles to Little Yosemite Valley35–45%
  50. Mono Pass (Rock Creek)30–40%
  51. Sabrina Lake30–40%
  52. Crater Lake30–40%
  53. Sunrise Lakes (no Donohue Pass)30–40%
  54. Central Cascades Overnight25–35%
  55. Cottonwood Lakes25–35%
  56. North Fork Lone Pine Creek25–35%
  57. River Trail (Agnew Meadow)25–35%
  58. Cedar Grove Woods Creek25–35%
  59. Bears Ears Grand Gulch20–30%
  60. Colorado Plateau Rivers San Juan River20–30%
  61. Grand Teton Climbing (Overnight)20–30%
  62. Havasupai Lodge Reservation20–30%
  63. Duck Pass (JMT)20–30%
  64. Minaret Lake20–30%
  65. Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Paria Canyon Through-Hike20–30%
  66. Vermilion Cliffs Paria Canyon Overnight20–30%
  67. Cathedral Lakes20–30%
  68. May Lake20–30%
  69. East Bearskin Lake (EP64)15–25%
  70. Grand Teton Paintbrush-Cascade Loop15–25%
  71. Grand Teton Teton Crest Trail15–25%

chance our scanner catches an opening in the next 7 days

The scale

Lowunder 31%Moderate31–60%Good60% and up

71 permits, from 15–25% up to 75–85%. Each range is computed from a handful of completed seven-day windows and pulled toward a pooled average, so a short record cannot run away with itself. The permits with enough history are also the ones people set the most alerts on, so this set is not a random sample of the catalogue.

When to have an alert on

Half of all openings land within 35 days

For every opening we caught, we measured the gap between catching it and the night it was for. The busiest stretch is one to two weeks before the trip.

0–4 days out: 1,633 openings5–9 days out: 1,793 openings10–14 days out: 1,580 openings15–19 days out: 1,277 openings20–24 days out: 1,073 openings25–29 days out: 914 openings30–34 days out: 2,099 openings35–39 days out: 2,148 openings40–44 days out: 2,102 openings45–49 days out: 3,080 openings50–54 days out: 627 openings55–59 days out: 477 openings60–64 days out: 189 openings65–69 days out: 157 openings70+ days out: 1,810 openingsmedian 35 days020406070+days between us catching the opening and the trip date

15–46

days out, middle half of openings

20,959

openings measured

82

days out, 95th percentile

This is the shape of the openings we have seen, rather than of every opening that exists: a date enters the sample when somebody has an alert on a window that covers it, so the curve carries our alert holders’ travel dates as well as the providers’ behaviour. Permits whose openings are mostly fetch noise are excluded.

What sits behind it

Openings we caught and confirmed

A forecast is only worth what the scanning behind it is worth. These are the openings our scanner caught and that stayed gone, on the permits whose openings we can measure cleanly.

1,594

openings caught and confirmed

66

permits they were caught on

1,916,545

scans in the last 30 days

Where these odds come from

Every figure here is measured from openings our own scanner caught, and recomputed once a day. Each one is the chance our scanner catches at least one opening on that permit inside the window shown. How we calculate this

Every permit we forecast

The whole list, by where it is

One link per permit that has a forecast, gathered under the park it sits in. It grows as more permits build up enough scan history to forecast.

The number beside each permit is its place in the same 7-day ranking the lookup above uses, out of 71.