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Why do some listings say hours or fees are unverified?
Quick answer
Because those fields change often and many operators publish them badly. If we cannot confirm current hours or fees from a credible source, we would rather mark the field unverified than pretend last summer's screenshot or a random review still reflects reality.
Hours and fees are among the most failure-prone fields in a parks directory. Cities bury them in PDFs, update them on Facebook but not on the official page, or change them temporarily for staffing or maintenance without leaving a durable record. Rather than smoothing over that uncertainty, SplashPadHub labels some of those details unverified. That is not a dodge. It is a transparency signal. We are telling you that the listing itself is likely real, but that specific operational field was not strong enough to publish confidently as current fact. In practice, this protects families from being misled by stale confidence. A blank or cautious field is inconvenient, but a confidently wrong one wastes a drive, a weekend, or a reporting citation.