# status.live campgrounds (remote · status.live)

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

- Trust score: 70/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-18

## Components

- remote · `status.live`: 70/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/live-status-campgrounds/campgrounds-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/live-status-campgrounds/campgrounds-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://status.live/campgrounds/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-10-18.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS enforcement could not be verified: the plaintext port answered with HTTP 405, which proves neither a plaintext path nor enforcement.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 72/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 413 tokens (~137/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 40/100
  - Stability observed for 12 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 74/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 22% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 3 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the status.live campgrounds MCP server?

status.live campgrounds is a hosted endpoint at https://status.live/campgrounds/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

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

### Cursor

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

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "live-status-campgrounds": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://status.live/campgrounds/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

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

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "live-status-campgrounds": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://status.live/campgrounds/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add live-status-campgrounds --url 'https://status.live/campgrounds/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  live-status-campgrounds:
    url: "https://status.live/campgrounds/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "live-status-campgrounds": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://status.live/campgrounds/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add live-status-campgrounds -t streamable-http -u 'https://status.live/campgrounds/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "live-status-campgrounds": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://status.live/campgrounds/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-10-18 (score 70, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 37 to 40. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 11 days of observed history at the previous scan, 12 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-16 (score 69, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 30 to 33. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 9 days of observed history at the previous scan, 10 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-14 (score 68, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 23 to 27. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 7 days of observed history at the previous scan, 8 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-12 (score 67, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 17 to 20. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 5 days of observed history at the previous scan, 6 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-10 (score 66, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 13. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 4 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-07 (score 65)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (3)

### `campgrounds_search` (~154 tokens)

Search campgrounds

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.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `open_today_only` (boolean)
- `query` (string, required): Name, id, park, forest or state, case-insensitive

### `campgrounds_get_status` (~133 tokens)

Get campground 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.

Input parameters:

- `campground` (string, required): Campground id or name

### `campgrounds_find_near` (~126 tokens)

Find campgrounds near a point

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.

Input parameters:

- `latitude` (number, required)
- `limit` (integer)
- `longitude` (number, required)
- `max_km` (number)
- `open_today_only` (boolean)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/live-status-campgrounds/campgrounds-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-18: 70
- 2026-10-17: 69
- 2026-10-16: 69
- 2026-10-15: 68
- 2026-10-14: 68
- 2026-10-13: 67
- 2026-10-12: 67
- 2026-10-11: 66
- 2026-10-10: 66
- 2026-10-07: 65

## Common questions

### What is the status.live campgrounds MCP server?

status.live campgrounds is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as live.status/campgrounds. Which of 4,200 national park and national forest campgrounds are open today, with booking links. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://status.live/campgrounds/mcp).

### Is the status.live campgrounds MCP server safe to use?

status.live campgrounds scores 70 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the status.live campgrounds MCP server expose?

status.live campgrounds exposes 3 tools: campgrounds_search, campgrounds_get_status, campgrounds_find_near. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 413 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the status.live campgrounds MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to status.live campgrounds without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the status.live campgrounds MCP server still maintained?

status.live campgrounds is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 18 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://status.live/campgrounds/mcp
- Website: https://status.live/campgrounds
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/live-status-campgrounds/campgrounds-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/live-status-campgrounds/campgrounds-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/live-status-campgrounds/campgrounds-mcp