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Outdoors MCP Server

com.theoutdoorsapp/outdoors
answering

Outdoors is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 20 tools.

US outdoor recreation: 37k+ trails, 30k+ campgrounds, parks, weather + wildfire safety. Read-only.

Uptime history 43 hours of history · worst hour 67%
43 hours agonow
97.8%
Uptime 24h
90 of 92 checks
20
Tools
read from the server
596 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add outdoors --transport http https://theoutdoorsapp.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "outdoors": {
      "url": "https://theoutdoorsapp.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.outdoors]
url = "https://theoutdoorsapp.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "outdoors": {
      "url": "https://theoutdoorsapp.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "outdoors": {
      "url": "https://theoutdoorsapp.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 20

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

adventure
adventure.candidates
Suggest candidate adventures near a location by scoring nearby trails/parks/campgrounds deterministically.
adventure.outline
Create a structured, day-by-day itinerary outline from selected trail/park/campground IDs or slugs.
campgrounds
campgrounds.get
Get a single published, verified campground by id or slug.
campgrounds.search
Search published, verified campgrounds with common filters (type, reservation, region/state, geo).
campsites
campsites.get
Get a single campsite (and its campground/park/region relations) by campground + campsite id.
campsites.list
List campsites for a campground with filters (type, hookups, accessibility, availability, loop).
parks
parks.get
Get a single published, verified park by id or slug.
parks.search
Search published, verified parks with optional geo and region filters.
trails
trails.get
Get a single public, verified trail by id or slug, including nearby trails and breadcrumbs.
trails.search
Search public, verified trails with filters (supports map bounds and near-me style geo filtering).
weather
weather.alerts
Weather alerts for a location.
weather.current
Current weather conditions for a location.
aqi
aqi.current
Current air quality (AQI) for a location.
fetch
fetch
Fetch the full Outdoors record for a search result id (e.g. "trail:bear-lake-loop", "park:rocky-mountain-national-park"). Returns the complete text of the record plus the canonical theoutdoorsapp.com URL for citation.
fires
fires.nearby
Nearby wildfire incidents for a location.
global
search.global
Global search across trails, parks, campgrounds, and water bodies (uses Meilisearch when available).
nearme
nearMe.search
Aggregate nearby Trails, Parks, and Campgrounds for a map-first exploration experience.
outdoors
outdoors.ping
Health check for the Outdoors MCP server.
safety
safety.overview
Combined safety overview (weather alerts, AQI, wildfire context) for a location.
search
search
Search Outdoors (theoutdoorsapp.com) for U.S. hiking trails, parks, campgrounds, and lakes/rivers/reservoirs. Returns a list of results whose ids can be passed to the fetch tool for the full record.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://theoutdoorsapp.com/mcp streamable-http answering 524 ms 0 min ago

Outdoors — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Outdoors do?
It exposes 20 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: adventure.candidates, adventure.outline, aqi.current, campgrounds.get, campgrounds.search, campsites.get and 14 more. 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 →
What is Outdoors mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around trails, weather and campgrounds. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is Outdoors working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 90 of 92 checks got a reply (97.8%), average response time 596 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Outdoors?
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 Outdoors need an API key?
No. Outdoors completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 20 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Outdoors?
It answers our handshake in 596 ms on average, which is faster than 17% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.