Community Guidelines
Trail reviews are here to help the next hiker decide, prepare and stay safe. Be honest and be specific about the trail. Criticise the trail as hard as you like, but not the people. Keep contact details, selling and party politics out. English and Patois are both welcome.
01Write about the trail
The route, the conditions, how hard it was, the views, getting to the trailhead, what to bring, how long it took you. A rating on its own is a review too.
Reviews about something other than hiking or this trail aren’t shown.
02Criticise trails, not people
“Badly marked, muddy the whole way, not worth it” is a fair review. So is swearing about how good the view was.
Insults, threats, harassment or hate aimed at anyone are not: other hikers, rangers, guides, landowners or anyone else.
03Keep contact details out
No phone numbers, email addresses, social media handles, or the street or neighbourhood where you or anyone else lives. Hikers’ safety comes first.
If your review includes contact details, it isn’t shown and the app asks you to edit them out. Once you do, it’s checked again.
04No selling or promotion
No advertising tours, guiding, guesthouses, transport or anything else, and no discount codes or links, even casually. Saying which boots held up on the wet rock is fine.
05No sexual content
Keep reviews free of sexual content and sexual remarks about people.
06Keep party politics out
Say how the trail is looked after, or what state the road to it is in. Leave political parties, politicians and campaigns out of it.
07Help others stay safe
Telling other hikers about a landslide, a washed-out bridge, a closure or a break-in at the trailhead is exactly what reviews are for.
Don’t encourage others to take risks: to ignore a closure or warning sign, cross private land without permission, skip registering at a ranger station, or make a dangerous jump or climb.
08How reviews are checked
A rating on its own is public straight away.
A review with a note is checked automatically before it’s public, usually within a few seconds. The note is checked by an automated service run by Cloudflare, which does not use it to train AI models. If the check finds a problem, the review is held: you can still see it, other hikers can’t, and a moderator looks at it.
Anyone can report a review. The author isn’t told who reported it. A reported review stays visible until a moderator looks at it.
Moderators decide. A review a moderator removes is no longer shown, and it can’t be edited or posted again. A moderator’s decision is final.
To keep things fair, you can post up to 3 new reviews and make up to 10 changes in any 24 hours, and you can’t review a trail you published.
09Questions
YardTrails is operated by Kerron Hutton, based in Jamaica. Questions about these guidelines: hello@yardtrails.app. How we handle your data is in the Privacy Policy.