This summer, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department is offering a free camping night at a selection of 20 state parks.

You can get a coupon that entitles customers who rent campsites for two consecutive nights to another night’s stay for free, Sunday through Thursday.

The coupons, which are good through Sept. 30, must be printed off the department’s Web site, www.oregonstateparks.org.

Oregon State Parks are filling at an all time high as people getaway closer to home. Every park that takes reservations is filled for every weekend of the summer. So you at this point for many state parks, you have to look for cancellations, go during the week or just wait until school starts in the fall.

The “buy two, get one free” offer is limited to one per customer per stay, and excludes yurts and cabins. The parks honoring the coupons rent sites exclusively on a first-come, first-served basis and are as follows:

Ainsworth, Viento, Cascadia, Cascara, Alfred. A Loeb, Carl G. Washburne, Cape Blanco, Humbug Mountain, Goose Lake, Collier Memorial, Jackson Kimball, Catherine Creek, Hilgard Junction, Lake Owyhee, Minam, Jasper Point, Ukiah-Dale, Unity Lake, Clyde Holliday, Red Bridge

It’s important to note that regular fees will still apply for camping, tours, concessions or other fees.

Will they all be packed on those weekends? Probably but who knows for sure. I would count on the most popular parks being pretty crowded so it’s up to you to save money and get close to others or just pay and enjoy it more on another weekend.

This summer is an odd mix of people traveling less and the fact that visits to National Parks are cheaper than many other kinds of vacations. Most people live within less than a days drive to a National Park of some kind. You can view our handy map of National Parks with camping here. There are other National Parks that do not have camping as well.

If you want to read a longer government dried version of the same information, you can see the official news release here.