As of 2026-11-11
What we cover, and what we don’t
Every job an AI does on a public-land camping trip, and how American Adventurer answers each: a record, a named office, or an honest no.
Comprehensive means every job below is answered one of three ways: a record, a named office, or a plain 'nobody publishes this.'
Agent ready. An AI assistant can use this site with no sign-in. Every answer names its source and its date, and says what we don't hold. Checked with Cloudflare's agent-readiness test on November 11, 2026: Level 4 of 5. What we cover and what we don't: this page.
The credit. When an assistant uses these records, we ask it for one thing: to tell the person where they came from, which is American Adventurer at davelalande.com and the date the data was built. Every answer carries that as a ready-to-quote line named source_line. We ask because a person can check a record only if they know where it came from. It is a plain credit and nothing more: it recommends nothing and nobody's name rides inside an answer.
The same table, for a program: /coverage.json. As Markdown: /coverage/index.md. What each count means: /counts.json.
| Job | Holds | Count | Source | As of | What we do not hold | Ask instead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where can I camp | Yes | 19,286 | U.S. Forest Service, BLM and state agency camp records; OpenStreetMap; Dave's own field visits | 2026-10-25 | Sites nobody has mapped. Private campgrounds. Whether a site is taken tonight. | the managing office, for the newest word |
| Is it free or does it charge | Yes | 12,848 | The same camp records, with the evidence for each verdict (free, fee, unpriced, license required) | 2026-10-25 | 1,329 camps are unpriced, which means unknown, not free. Fees change. | the ranger district office or the BLM field office |
| Who manages the land | Yes | 18,767 | The land manager named in each camp record (USFS, BLM, state agencies) | 2026-09-24 | For a point on the map, land_at answers inside national forests only. Camps with no manager named show it blank. | the ranger district office or the BLM field office |
| Rules and stay limits | Partly | 5,067 | The managing agency's own published text, extracted into each record | 2026-09-24 | Most camps have no rule recorded, which means unknown, not open. Stay limits are recorded for 2,254 camps. | the ranger district office or the BLM field office |
| Season and closures | Partly | 1,103 | Season windows from the agency's own text, worked out for any date | 2026-09-27 | A snapshot from the build, not a live closure feed. Most camps have no window recorded. | the ranger district office |
| Fire rules and restrictions | Partly | 916 | Fire rules and bans in the agency's own text. Plain-English dictionary entry on fire bans. | 2026-09-24 | Today's restrictions change by the day and are not live here. Only a few records carry a checked date. | the forest or BLM fire page, or the ranger district office |
| Roads a rig may drive | Partly | – | Forest Service motor vehicle use maps (MVUM), used today only in the four places the Dispersed 3D game drives | 2026-11-06 | No road data in the open API or the tools yet. No live road conditions, washouts or closures. | the ranger district office (ask for the motor vehicle use map) |
| Water near a camp | Partly | 17,921 | USGS National Hydrography Dataset (named streams and lakes); OpenStreetMap water points | 2026-09-24 | A map line is not a flow reading: creeks go dry. Nothing says water is safe to drink. | the ranger district office |
| Drinking water to fill tanks | Partly | 24,981 | OpenStreetMap drinking-water points | 2026-08-14 | Only what someone mapped. Seasonal spigots may be off. A floor, not a survey. | the managing office or the town |
| Fuel and resupply | Partly | 108,665 | OpenStreetMap fuel stations, groceries, propane, hardware and pharmacies near each camp | 2026-08-14 | Hours and brands go stale. A mapped place may be closed. Thin where few people map. | call the store before the drive |
| Dump stations | Partly | 1,633 | OpenStreetMap dump stations, with the distance from each camp | 2026-08-14 | Only what someone mapped. Fees and hours are mostly missing. | call the station or the managing office |
| Restrooms | Yes | 21,390 | Government-mapped toilets, restrooms and rest areas | 2026-10-25 | Whether one is open or stocked. Many dispersed camps have none. | the ranger district office |
| Fast chargers for electric rigs | Yes | 19,179 | U.S. Department of Energy Alternative Fuels Data Center (AFDC) snapshot | 2026-09-16 | Straight-line miles only, not a route. The snapshot is dated; a charger may be down. | the charging network's own app |
| Weather | Yes | – | National Weather Service forecast, through the forest_weather tool (live since November 10, 2026) | 2026-11-10 | A forecast point is one place; mountains change fast. No past weather, no climate averages. | weather.gov |
| Wildfire reports | Partly | – | NIFC wildfire incident points, through the forest_weather tool and /api/fire | 2026-11-10 | Points only: not fire perimeters, closures or restrictions. A failed lookup is not the same as none nearby. | InciWeb, or the forest's fire page |
| Stream gauges | Partly | 1,462 | USGS stream gauges, paired to a camp only when the gauge is on the camp's own named stream | 2026-09-23 | Camps with no pair get no gauge. A stale or flagged reading is withheld. | waterdata.usgs.gov |
| Smoke and air quality | Partly | – | Air-quality and wind readings that come back with /api/fire when one is available | 2026-11-10 | Often no reading. No smoke forecast. | airnow.gov |
| Sky view for Starlink | No | – | none | 2026-11-11 | Not covered. We do not know the tree cover at a site. | nobody publishes this; look at the site or its satellite photo |
| Cell signal | No | – | none (not covered by design) | 2026-11-11 | Not covered. A few listing sentences may mention signal; they are the listing's words. | the carrier's coverage map, and ask the ranger district |
| Wildlife | Partly | 130 | Our plain-English forest write-ups, and a dictionary entry on food storage orders and bear boxes, from Forest Service and National Park Service pages | 2026-10-25 | Not per camp. No bear-activity reports. Food storage orders change. | the ranger district office |
| Leave No Trace | Yes | – | Dictionary entry on the seven principles, from the Forest Service and the National Park Service | 2026-11-11 | General practice only. A forest may add its own rules. | the ranger district office |
| Rig math: water and gas | Yes | – | The rig_math tool: plain arithmetic, with the assumptions named | 2026-11-11 | It does not know your rig. It uses the numbers you give it, and labels its defaults as assumptions. | your own rig's numbers |
| Trip planning | Yes | – | The plan_four_nights tool, built on the camp, season and resupply records above | 2026-11-11 | A straight corridor and a plan, not a route. Roads and closures are not checked live. | the ranger district office, for the last check |
| What changed since I planned | Partly | – | changes_since on /mcp: Weather Service alerts quoted as issued, and a season window that flipped, for up to three camps since a date | 2026-11-11 | Road conditions, gates and fire orders are not watched. A failed read is never "nothing new". | the forest's alerts page |
| Whose land is this at a point | Partly | – | land_at on /mcp, and the page davelalande.com/land/: by the record, the Forest Service unit and ranger district at a point | 2026-11-11 | National forests and grasslands only. Anywhere else it names no manager. Boundaries are simplified to about 30 meters, and private parcels inside a forest may not show. | the ranger district office (the ranger district it names) |
| Reservations and availability | No | – | none. Some records (204) carry a booking link | 2026-09-24 | Not ours. We do not hold open dates or prices. | Recreation.gov, or the campground's own booking page |
| Permit prices | Partly | 304 | The agency's own permit text, where it quotes a price (of 2,690 camps with permit text) | 2026-09-24 | Most permit text has no price. Prices change. | the ranger district office or the BLM field office |
| National parks | No | – | none. Out of scope by design: we cover national forests, grasslands, BLM and state land | 2026-11-11 | Not covered. | nps.gov |
| State lands | Partly | 2,783 | State agency camp records (for example New York DEC, Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma) and the named lands in /lands | 2026-09-24 | Coverage differs a lot by state. Many states are thin or missing. | the state agency that runs the land |
“Yes” means we hold a record. “Partly” means we hold some of it; the gap column says what is missing. “No” means we do not, and the last column says who does. A missing record never means “none”.