TERMS OF USE

By using the site you agree to these terms and to our Privacy policy. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the site. We may update these terms; the date above shows the latest version, and continuing to use the site after a change means you accept it. We’ll give account holders notice of significant changes.

Adventure Index helps you discover places for outdoor sports. It is a starting point for research, not a guidebook you can rely on, a professional service, or instruction in any sport. Scores, grades, seasons, maps, drive times and descriptions are generated from public data and our own summaries, and may be incomplete or wrong.

Climbing, mountain biking, surfing, skiing, snowboarding, diving, kayaking, kiteboarding, hiking and trail running can cause serious injury or death. Conditions change constantly, and information on this site may be wrong, out of date or missing important hazards.

• Check before you go: current local conditions, weather, avalanche, surf and water forecasts, closures, fire restrictions, and the state of routes, trails and fixed gear.
• Check access and rules: land ownership, permits, seasonal closures (for example raptor nesting), parking and local regulations. Showing a place on the map does not mean you may legally enter it.
• Know your limits: get proper training, use suitable equipment, go with qualified guides where appropriate, and tell someone your plans.
• You are responsible for your own safety and decisions, and for those in your care. You use the information on this site at your own risk.

In an emergency, call the local emergency number.

The site and everything on it are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We don’t promise the site will be available, error-free or secure.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any injury, death, loss or damage arising from outdoor activities, from relying on information on the site, or from using third-party sites, products or services we link to. Our total liability for any claim relating to the site is limited to US $100. Some places don’t allow these limits, so they may not all apply to you; nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

You agree to indemnify us against claims arising from your misuse of the site or breach of these terms.

Much of the site is built on open data. We credit and follow the licence of each source:

• OpenStreetMap: map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL). Data derived from OpenStreetMap is available under the same licence.
• OpenBeta: climbing data from OpenBeta, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). OpenBeta photos are not used.
• Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia: images and text are used under each file’s own licence (often CC BY or CC BY-SA), with the author and licence shown or linked where the image appears.
• Unsplash: photos are used under the Unsplash License.
• Government data: for example the US National Park Service, USDA Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Recreation.gov (RIDB) and the US Census Bureau. US federal data is generally in the public domain; other governments’ data is used under their open licences. Government agencies don’t endorse this site.
• Terrain: the topographic artwork on destination and region cards is drawn by us from Terrain Tiles on AWS (open data), which combine USGS 3DEP, SRTM, GEBCO, ETOPO1 and other elevation sources; see the dataset’s attribution list.
• Map tiles: by the provider credited on each map.

Everything else (our text, scores, design and compilation) is © Adventure Index. You may share links and short quotes with credit. Spotted a licensing problem? Email legal@adventure-index.com and we’ll fix it quickly.

Please don’t:

• scrape, crawl, bulk-download or harvest the site or its data, or access it with bots or scripts, beyond what our robots.txt allows (ordinary search-engine indexing is welcome);
• call our APIs from your own apps, overload them, get around rate limits, or use them to build a competing dataset (if you need data, ask us, or use the open sources above directly);
• try to break, probe or disrupt the site’s security, or access accounts or data that aren’t yours;
• use the site for anything unlawful, harmful or misleading.

We may block access that breaks these rules.

Accounts are free, optional, and for people aged 16 or older. Give accurate information, keep your password safe and don’t share your account; you’re responsible for activity under it. Tell us at legal@adventure-index.com if you think someone else has accessed it. We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms or put others at risk. You can delete your account at any time.

You keep ownership of what you post. By posting, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, display, reproduce, adapt (for example resize or translate) and distribute it on and in connection with Adventure Index, for as long as it is on the site. You can delete your content; copies may remain briefly in backups.

You promise you have the right to post it, and that it:

• is honest and based on your own experience (no fake or paid reviews without disclosure);
• is not unlawful, defamatory, harassing, hateful, sexually explicit or a threat;
• doesn’t infringe anyone’s copyright, trademark or privacy (don’t post other people’s personal details or photos without permission);
• doesn’t encourage trespass, illegal access or dangerous behavior, or reveal sensitive sites that land managers have closed (for example cultural sites or nesting areas);
• is not spam or advertising.

We may remove or edit content, and suspend accounts, at our discretion. We don’t check everything posted and aren’t responsible for users’ content. To report content or a copyright problem, email legal@adventure-index.com.

Adventure Index is free, and some links on the site are affiliate links (for example to gear, lift and park passes, guides or bookings). If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. This follows the US Federal Trade Commission’s guidance on endorsements.

Commissions never decide what we recommend, how places score, or what we write. Prices and availability are set by the seller, and purchases are between you and the seller under their terms.

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We link to many other sites (guidebooks, land managers, shops, news). We don’t control them and aren’t responsible for their content, products or privacy practices.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of [State], USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Disputes will be handled in the state or federal courts located in [County, State], unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring a claim in your local courts. If any part of these terms is unenforceable, the rest still applies. Not enforcing a term is not a waiver of it.

Questions about these terms: legal@adventure-index.com. Privacy questions: privacy@adventure-index.com.