Follow every fact
to its source.

Official records, carefully interpreted

The Recreation Information Database (RIDB) supplies official campground and site identifiers, permitted-equipment entries, and attribute records. Where accessible, individual Recreation.gov source records add a second view and local notices. Each acquisition is saved before normalization.

• RIDB official bulk downloads — the preferred starting point for reproducible imports.
• RIDB API documentation — API definitions and relationships.
• Recreation.gov: Use and Share Our Data — data-use guidance and attribution.
• RIDB API Access Agreement — source access terms; API keys are restricted to local acquisition.
• Federal Camping Data Standard and the current version 2.1 PDF (the earlier version 2.0 PDF remains available) — terminology, with source-specific interpretation still required.

Attribution does not imply endorsement

CampsiteCheck is an independent project. Each campground and campsite links to its original official listing. No agency logos or reviews are republished. The separately licensed landscape photographs are credited below. A public data record does not automatically grant rights to every attachment.

Locally served typefaces

DM Sans and Source Serif 4 are distributed under the SIL Open Font License. License notices are retained in the project. Fonts are served locally, with no font-provider requests.

When sources disagree

A normalized fact can retain multiple original values. Unresolved contradictions are marked conflicting and cannot confirm a required condition. Source descriptions appear as plain text. We do not promote a general campground service into a site-level hookup or infer a missing slope.

Source acquisition and modification dates are different. A recently downloaded file can contain an older record. The source register below describes the exact accepted inputs, while coverage reports the fields that can currently be interpreted.