How we verify information

Weather, wind, waves, tides and official alerts come straight from NOAA, the National Weather Service and Open-Meteo, refreshed while you browse. If a live feed fails, we say so — we never show stale numbers as if they were current.

Event dates, venues, phone numbers, fees and local rules are checked against official sources — organizers, county offices, state agencies — before they appear. Where a claim matters (a deadline, a fine, a closing date), the source is linked on the card.

Some things can't be known exactly — crowd levels, how busy a weekend will feel, drive times at rush hour. These are clearly framed as estimates, built from the season calendar and typical patterns, never presented as fact.

The kind of thing a neighbor tells you: which beach at which tide, when to leave for sunset, what visitors always get wrong. This is experience, labeled as guidance — and where a safety or money decision depends on it, we point you to the official source too.