Ranger MCP Server

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answering

Ranger is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Live US campground availability, wildfire and river conditions, and trails on public land.

Uptime history 6 days of history · worst day 99%

6 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

490 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Ranger missed one check this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 14 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add ranger --transport http https://www.try-ranger.com/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ranger": {
      "url": "https://www.try-ranger.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.ranger]
url = "https://www.try-ranger.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ranger": {
      "url": "https://www.try-ranger.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ranger": {
      "url": "https://www.try-ranger.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

campgrounds

find_campgrounds

Find campgrounds within a radius of a coordinate across federal, state and private land, with whether each is reservable and a booking link. Call this when someone asks where to camp near a place. Returns the campground's own page so conditions and site detail can be read next.

conditions

check_conditions

Check live safety conditions at a coordinate on US public land: active wildfire perimeters and distance to the nearest fire, river and streamflow level against seasonal normals, advisory-grade weather in the next 7 days, open park closures and hazard alerts, and air quality. Returns a 0-100 Trip Safety Score. Call this whenever someone asks whether a place is safe to visit, whether a fire or smoke is affecting it, whether a trail or road is closed, or whether a river is runnable. It reports what was CHECKED and what is unknown separately, so absence of a warning is never presented as an all-clear.

trails

find_trails

Find named hiking trails within a radius of a coordinate, ranked by how much is known about each rather than by raw length, so service roads and sidewalks do not lead the list. Returns distance, elevation gain, and route shape where known. Call this when someone asks what to hike near a place.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://www.try-ranger.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	1327 ms	14 min ago

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Ranger — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Ranger do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_conditions, find_campgrounds, find_trails. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Ranger working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 490 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Ranger?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Ranger need an API key?

No. Ranger completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Ranger?

It answers our handshake in 490 ms on average, which is faster than 26% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.