The next monthly release of Ningaloo Coast campground bookings will open at 10am on Tuesday 3 March on parkstay.dbca.wa.gov.au.

Campers will be able to book for stays between Friday 28 August and Thursday 24 September across all campgrounds within Cape Range National Park, Nyinggulara National Park and Nyinggulu Coastal Reserves.

“The first Ningaloo booking release in February made securing a campsite at Ningaloo more equitable and gave more people the chance to secure a booking," DBCA Assistant Director Visitor Services Rod Annear said.

This is the second monthly release of bookings for the Ningaloo Coast as part of a three-month trial of a new bookings process. Previously, bookings have been released daily at midnight.

Mr Annear said the Park Stay WA booking system will be temporarily closed at midnight on Monday to prepare for the 10am Tuesday release.

“Park Stay WA will allow bookings from 10am on Tuesday, and it’s important to note there’s no benefit to logging on earlier in the day as the queue will reset at 10am”.

“Once you’ve moved through the queue and are on the Park Stay WA booking site, you will be allocated a 30-minute session to complete your booking.”

DBCA has made improvements to the queueing process following the first monthly release and messages displayed on screen now change as you progress through the queue, to make the process clearer.

To avoid losing your place in the queue, it is important that you don’t:

• refresh or reload the page while queuing
• stay away from the queue page for too long
• join the queue on more than one browser tab or window.

Mr Annear suggested that anyone planning to book campsites in other parts of the state, amend or cancel existing bookings, should do so on another day if possible, to avoid queue delays on Tuesday 3 March.

“When the first month of Ningaloo bookings opened in early February, bookings were completed at more than four times the previous record rate, with queues in place up until about 4pm when most Ningaloo Coast sites booked out,” he said.

For more information about the trial, visit exploreparks.dbca.wa.gov.au/ningaloo-coast-camping-trial-faq