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Outdoors is built and kept accurate by a small team. Tell us what's wrong, what's missing, or what you'd build next — a person reads every message.
Other routes
Some things are faster than a form.
Most of what people write to us about already has a shorter path.
- Delete your account or get your dataThe self-serve steps, the 30-day grace period, and exactly what a deletion removes.Self-serve
- Use Outdoors in an AI assistantA free, read-only MCP endpoint for Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. No account, no API key.Free
- Report a copyright issueThe notice-and-takedown process, what a valid notice needs, and how to file a counter-notice.DMCA
- Report an accessibility barrierWhat we build to, what we have tested, and where to send anything we missed.Standards
- hello@theoutdoorsapp.comPrefer your own mail client? Same inbox, same people.Email
Before you write
The five questions we answer most, answered here instead.
- I found something wrong on a trail, park, or campground page.
- Please tell us. If you are signed in, use the Report an issue button on the page itself and pick “Inaccurate information” — that carries the page reference for us automatically. If you would rather not sign in, pick “Wrong or missing data” above and paste the URL. A person reviews every report before anything on the page changes.
- Is Outdoors free to use?
- Yes. Every feature on the site is free, and there is no paid tier — no subscription, no trial, and nothing behind a paywall.
- How do I delete my account, or get a copy of my data?
- Both are self-serve, and the steps live on our Data Deletion page. Deletion runs on a 30-day grace period: we sign you out right away and schedule the purge 30 days out, so signing back in during that window cancels it.
- Can I use Outdoors data in my own app or assistant?
- For AI assistants, yes and today: we run a free, public, read-only MCP server that Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini can connect to without an account or API key — see Connect to AI. For anything beyond that, pick “Partnership or data licensing” above and tell us what you are building.
- Where does your data come from?
- Federal and state land managers — the National Park Service, Recreation.gov, the US Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and state park and wildlife agencies — plus OpenStreetMap for trail geometry. Where Our Data Comes From has the full list, and what we deliberately do not publish. When we are not certain of something, we leave it off the page rather than guess.
Still curious? Read where our data comes from or our story .