How we check our information
Rules, prices and opening dates change. A bivouac ban or a new booking quota can turn a planned trip upside down, so every practical detail on Parks and Wonders comes from a named source and carries the date we last checked it.
Where our information comes from
We start with the body that runs the place: the national park authority, the reserve, the cave operator or the local council. Their website and their published regulations come first.
Tourist offices and the press fill the gaps. Wikipedia and Wikidata help us with names, coordinates and history, never with rules or prices.
What we check
- Rules: wild camping, drones, dogs, fires, swimming, visitor quotas. A rule we cannot trace to the site manager is not published.
- Prices and booking: admission, parking, shuttles, guided tours, with the year they apply to.
- Opening dates and seasons: when a cave closes for winter, when a hut opens, when a trail is usually free of snow.
- Access: gateway towns, roads, public transport.
Two dates on every page
Each page shows the date its facts were checked. It is separate from the date the page was last edited: rewording a paragraph does not make a rule more current. Each source listed at the bottom of a page has its own consultation date.
We check rules and prices again every year before the main season, and sooner when a manager announces a change.
Photos
Photos of a place are real photographs: they come from Wikimedia Commons or from the press kits of the places themselves, with the author and licence credited under each picture.
Translations
Pages are written in English, then translated into French, Spanish and German. A page is only translated when people search for that place in the language, and every translation is proofread, language by language, before it goes live.
Spotted a mistake?
Rules change faster than any guide. If something on a page no longer matches what you found on site, write to us through the contact page with the page address and what you saw. We check it against the manager’s own sources and correct the page, along with its verification date.
Whatever we publish, the site manager has the final word: check their official website before you set off.