{"id":383688,"date":"2026-07-02T15:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/383688\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T15:20:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:20:26","slug":"californias-crack-down-on-state-park-no-shows-starts-long-beach-post-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/383688\/","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s crack down on state park no-shows starts \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally <a href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/news\/californias-crack-down-state-park-no-shows-starts-july-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published by LAist<\/a> on Wednesday, July 1.<\/p>\n<p>California state parks are so popular there\u2019s a reservation system to manage attendance. But some people book a spot and then don\u2019t turn up. That\u2019s being addressed by new rules that mandate how much notice you need to give for a cancellation to avoid charges. And if you ghost a reservation three times, you\u2019ll be banned from reserving for a year.<\/p>\n<p>The changes:\u00a0You\u2019ll get a refund only if you cancel a week or more before your reservation starts. After that you\u2019ll be charged the first night\u2019s fee. And if you cancel two days or less before, you\u2019ll give up your entire fee.<\/p>\n<p>A one-year ban: If you no-show three times in a calendar year, you\u2019ll be banned from making a reservation for a year.<\/p>\n<p>Why now:\u00a0California state parks are very popular, including parks in Southern California like Crystal Cove State Beach, Bolsa Chica State Beach and Huntington State Beach. The summer months lead to high demand and the state has a reservation system to manage attendance, <a href=\"http:\/\/reservecalifornia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">reservecalifornia.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The backstory:\u00a0California legislators heard that there were significant no-shows at state parks before they passed Assembly Bill 618, the legislation that led to the current changes, which take effect July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This article was originally published by LAist on Wednesday, July 1. California state parks are so popular there\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-383688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}