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Long Trail Thru-Hike permit

Long Trail Availability & Cancellation Tracker

Long Trail is issued via walk-up. When someone tracks it, our scanner monitors the booking system continuously and alerts them the moment dates open.

PermitCast forecast

Forecast unlocks soon

Set an alert and your forecast arrives after six weeks of scans.

How we calculate this

Be the first to set an alert for Long Trail

Set up an alert and the scanner starts checking Long Trail straight away, and tells you by push, SMS and email the moment dates open. Every check it makes from then on is counted on this page.

Recent availability changes

Set an alert and every opening the scanner catches for this permit lands here, newest first.

See the live feed of availability changes across all permits.

How cancellation tracking works

Sold out almost never means gone. People cancel Long Trail trips for weather, injuries, and schedule changes, and those dates go straight back to the booking system without any announcement.

PermitSnag checks Long Trail availability around the clock, compares every scan against the last known state, and alerts you only when the open dates actually change. No refresh-tab-and-pray, no false alarms from unchanged listings.

Long Trail availability questions

How do I get a Long Trail permit after it sells out?

Cancellations. Booked Long Trail permits that get cancelled return to the reservation system, usually with no announcement. PermitSnag scans continuously and alerts you the moment a date you want opens up.

How often do Long Trail permits become available?

Cancellation timing is unpredictable, which is why continuous monitoring matters. Spots tend to open around payment deadlines and in the days right before trips, when plans fall through.

How fast are Long Trail availability alerts?

Paid plans are scanned about every minute and we tell you within seconds of a detected opening, by push notification, SMS, and email. Free accounts are scanned hourly.