The Hiking World

npx add-mcp 'https://www.thehikingworld.com/api/mcp'

For machines and developers

The same sourced records, as feeds. Missing values stay empty. We don't sell treks.

/llms.txt is the short brief for answer engines: what the site is, how to cite it, and where the feeds live.

The public API is read-only: /api/v1/trails, /api/v1/trails/{slug}, /api/v1/permits, and /api/v1/trails/{slug}/geojson.

The same read tools are available two ways. Install @thehikingworld/mcp and run npx -y @thehikingworld/mcp for stdio. Or add the hosted endpoint /api/mcp as a remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP). Claude and other clients take a URL; no package install. Tools: get_trail, search_trails, get_permit, list_regions, list_countries, get_geojson, get_provenance. The server is read-only. Figures stay sourced, dated, and unverified when the record says so. Publishing the npm package is a separate step and is not claimed as live here until it is on the registry.

OpenAPI lists the read routes. There is no API key. Responses carry X-RateLimit-Policy: use the cache (about five minutes on record routes, one hour on feeds) and do not crawl faster than that.

License is split. Route geometry is ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors. Editorial text is The Hiking World: cite the trail name, the canonical URL, and the verified date on the figure. Permit tariffs stay the issuer’s. This is not a Creative Commons grant over the whole catalog.

curl https://www.thehikingworld.com/api/v1/trails/milford-track
# { schemaVersion, generatedAt, license, data, provenance }

/data is the human freshness scorecard. Cite a figure with the trail name, the canonical URL, and the verified date on that figure.

Changelog

• 2026-10-11 — Feed schema 1.1. Official permit fees are in the public trail HTML. Catalogue stubs are off the default lists.
• 2026-10-07 — Signed records on /api/v1/trails/{slug} when the build has the provenance key. Verify at /verify.
• 2026-10 — /api/mcp read tools. ?simplified=1 on GeoJSON for maps. Full geometry stays on the default GeoJSON and GPX routes.