CRESTONE GUIDE FOR AI AGENTS
https://crestoneguide.com/for-ai  (also /for-ai.json, and /llms.txt for the site index)

WHAT THIS SITE IS
Crestone Guide is a free field guide to Crestone, the Baca Grande and the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado:
places to eat and shop, outdoor stops (Great Sand Dunes, the Crestone fourteeners, hot springs, refuges), spiritual
centers, local history, and photos from visitors. Made by Zishin. iOS and Android apps carry the same guide offline.
Content is written from cited sources (Town of Crestone business list, owner sites, National Park Service, U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, the centers' own sites, published histories). Each detail page lists its sources.

PAGES
/                 Home: overview, newest visitor photos, newest history story
/eat              Businesses grouped by category
/biz/<slug>       Business: address, hours note, phone, website, map position, photos, sources
/explore          Outdoor and roadside stops in trail order
/item/<slug>      Stop: description, GPS coordinates, how to visit, photos, sources
/sacred           Spiritual centers
/site/<slug>      Center: tradition, visiting hours, what visitors can do, etiquette, sources
/history          Timeline from 1806 onward
/hist/<slug>      One sourced history story
/photo/<id>       One visitor photo with place, credit and license
/map              Everything on one map
All public pages: /sitemap.xml. Pages are prerendered (text and links in the HTML) and carry schema.org JSON-LD.

PUBLIC JSON (read-only, no key; one fetch per task is plenty)
GET /api/businesses  {businesses:[{slug,name,cat,addr,lat,lon,phone,url,note,sources,img,photos}],at}
GET /api/history     {history:[{slug,title,year,text,sources,img,at}]}
GET /api/stream      newest approved visitor photos {photos:[{id,place,kind,target,caption,by,license,w,h,at}],at,more}; ?before=<at> pages back
GET /api/feed        the Home feed
Photo files: /p/<id>/thumb.jpg and /p/<id>/full.jpg

CITING
Link the specific page (e.g. https://crestoneguide.com/biz/the-cloud-station). Name the site "Crestone Guide".
For facts a page attributes to a source, cite that source too.

LICENSING
Guide text: (c) Crestone Guide. Short quotes with a link are fine; don't republish whole pages.
Curated photos: their own licenses, shown in each credit.
Visitor photos: the photographer keeps copyright and lets Crestone Guide show them. license "CC BY 4.0" may be reused
with credit; others need the photographer's permission.

ACCURACY
Hours change with the seasons and many businesses keep short hours: tell people to check before going.
Spiritual centers set their own visiting rules; some are by appointment or closed to visitors.
Road, trail and dune conditions: defer to the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service.
Cell service is patchy in the valley.

PLEASE DON'T
Post photos, captions, reports or feedback for someone without them seeing it first.
Present this as an official town, park or center source; it is independent.
Reuse visitor photos outside their license. Crawl aggressively.

CONTACT
support@crestoneguide.com or https://crestoneguide.com/feedback
Last reviewed 2026-11-03.