If I remember right, on the old recreation.org site, when a new reservation window opened (just like Feb. 15-Mar. 14 did today for Upper Pines) you could make a reservation for up 2 two weeks at a time, even if it meant most of your reservation was part of the month not open yet. As an example, since Mar. 14 is the last day of the current reservation window, one could make a reservation for 2 weeks beginning on Mar. 14 that extended through Mar. 27. You could not make a reservation of any length beginning on, or after Mar. 15, but as long as your start date was w/in the current open window you could make it be for 2 weeks. Am I remembering right/wrong?
The reason I am bringing this up is that on the new website one can only extend a reservation for 2 nights beyond the end of the reservation window (i.e., if you reserve on, or before, the 14th, then the 16th is the furthest into the future you can go. I called recreation.org (877 444-6777) and they confirmed that to be the situation. They said it was up to the campground to let them know when they could release sites. I asked if they had a number I could call, and they gave me (209) 372-8502. I called and it was the Valley Reservation office (I assume the one in the back corner of the Curry crab apple grove parking lot). I left a message and my phone number. However, as I was typing this I decided to call again just to get the exact name of the office that I had called...and a real person answered. I explained the situation to him and he said there are still a lot of bugs being worked out of the system, but this was the first he had heard of this particular one. He said he would pass it on to his supervisor. Now I wait....
Steve