Data & credits
We pick the stays and write the guides ourselves. Some of the facts around them come from open data and public services, and we are grateful to the people who maintain them.
Stays, photos and prices
Stay descriptions, photos, ratings, availability and prices come from our booking partner LiteAPI by Nuitée, which gets them from the hotels and their distribution partners. Photos remain the property of their owners. Our selection, scores, tags and write-ups are our own.
Maps
Map tiles are served by OpenFreeMap, © OpenMapTiles, with map data from © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Maps are drawn with MapLibre.
Trails
Trail names, routes and surfaces are © OpenStreetMap contributors, delivered through the Overture Maps Foundation (release 2026-09-23.1) and available under the Open Database License. Where a trail page shows a photo, it is credited to its photographer and linked to its page on Wikimedia Commons. Our processed trail database is available under the ODbL on request (hello@analogescapes.com), with the method used to build it. See trails near our stays.
Drive times
Drive times are estimates for a drive with no traffic, worked out on road data © OpenStreetMap contributors . Routes computed with Valhalla, an open-source router we run ourselves.
Elevation
Stay elevations, used to match each stay with a weather station at a similar height and in the night-sky model, come from AWS Terrain Tiles: United States 3DEP (formerly NED) and global GMTED2010 and SRTM terrain data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey. ArcticDEM terrain data DEM(s) were created from DigitalGlobe, Inc., imagery and funded under National Science Foundation awards 1043681, 1559691, and 1542736.
Night sky
Sky darkness comes from our own Analog Escapes Dark Sky Index: city and town lights seen by the VIIRS instrument on the Suomi NPP, NOAA-20 and NOAA-21 satellites (NOAA Open Data Dissemination, U.S. government data in the public domain), spread through the atmosphere with the standard light-pollution model (Garstang; Cinzano, Falchi and Elvidge) and checked against Sky Quality Meter readings from Globe at Night (NSF NOIRLab, CC BY 4.0). It is an estimate of the sky straight overhead on a clear, moonless night, not a Bortle class. It is our own product made from NOAA data, not NOAA data, and NOAA does not endorse it. We publish the index under CC BY 4.0.
Clear-night odds use ERA5 hourly cloud cover, 2016 to 2025 (Hersbach et al., ECMWF): contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026, licensed CC BY 4.0; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. We read it from Google's public ARCO-ERA5 copy.
Weather
Typical monthly weather uses the NOAA NCEI 1991 to 2020 U.S. Climate Normals. The forecast in your trip emails comes from the National Weather Service. Both are U.S. government data in the public domain.
Towns and state borders
Town names and locations in search come from the free zipcodes dataset (BSD license). State outlines come from the U.S. Census Bureau via us-atlas (public domain).
Type, code and services
Fonts are Inter and Libre Caslon, open fonts licensed under the SIL Open Font License. The site runs on Next.js and React (MIT), with hosting by Vercel, accounts and storage by Supabase and email by Brevo.
Corrections
See something wrong or want a credit changed? Write to hello@analogescapes.com. Our terms and privacy policy cover everything else.