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One to five stars, and what happens when you pick a low one.
A rating is a single score out of five. Anyone can leave one — you do not need an account, and the end of trail mode is where most ratings happen.
Tap the star. That is the whole interaction. You are not asked anything else.
A low score asks one follow-up: what was wrong? You pick from a short list — bad routing, missing stops, unclear instructions, inaccurate history, a problem getting access, or simply boring — and there is an "other" box for anything not on the list.
Those reasons are not public. Nobody browsing the hike sees them. They go to whoever maintains the hike, and to site admins, gathered into a summary that reads like "3 said bad routing." The public page shows only the average and how many people have rated.
Signed in, you can add a note for future hikers alongside your stars. Notes are public: they show under "Trail reports" on the hike page with your name, and like everything else you add, they're shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. The "what was wrong" reasons above stay private.
If you are signed in and you walk a hike again, you can leave a fresh rating six months after your last one. Only your most recent rating counts toward the average, so re-rating replaces rather than stacks. Before six months are up you can still edit the rating you left.
Ratings left without an account are tied to a pseudonymous identifier for your browser session, not to you. It exists so one visitor cannot rate the same hike repeatedly, and so obvious automated abuse can be pulled. We never store your IP address or browser details in readable form.