# Moss Vale

> Independent visitor guide for Moss Vale, NSW 2577, focused on tourism, history, gardens, walks, shops, cafes, schools, facilities, health services, sport, maps, events, and local practical stops.

This site is a one-page destination guide for humans and AI agents researching Moss Vale in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia.

## Primary Pages

- [Moss Vale visitor guide](https://moss-vale.com/): Main guide covering what to see, where to eat, Argyle Street visitor stops, maps, events, local shops, history, family activities, schools, facilities, health services, sport, clothing, essential services, living context, and practical supplies. Approx. 12.5K tokens.
- [Markdown brief](https://moss-vale.com/moss-vale.md): Compact agent-readable summary of the guide, boundaries, and priority resources. Approx. 1.2K tokens.
- [Agent instructions](https://moss-vale.com/agents.md): Public instructions for agents using the site. Approx. 260 tokens.
- [Agent instructions uppercase alias](https://moss-vale.com/AGENTS.md): Same public instructions for tools that expect uppercase AGENTS.md.
- [Agent skill](https://moss-vale.com/skill.md): Capability contract for how agents should use the visitor guide. Approx. 400 tokens.
- [Agent Skills discovery index](https://moss-vale.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json): Well-known JSON index for installing the Moss Vale visitor-guide skill. Approx. 130 tokens.
- [Agent permissions](https://moss-vale.com/agent-permissions.json): Machine-readable public crawling and human-review boundaries. Approx. 220 tokens.
- [Sitemap](https://moss-vale.com/sitemap.xml): XML sitemap for crawlers. Approx. 100 tokens.
- [Robots](https://moss-vale.com/robots.txt): Crawl policy with explicit AI crawler allowances and private tooling exclusions. Approx. 120 tokens.

## Canonical Identity

- Canonical URL: https://moss-vale.com/
- Place: Moss Vale, NSW 2577, Australia.
- Region: Southern Highlands, Wingecarribee Shire, New South Wales.
- Contact for corrections, removals, or suggested additions: mossy@moss-vale.com.
- The guide is independent and visitor-facing. It is not an official council, tourism authority, transport, emergency, health, or weather service.

## Key Visitor Topics

- Things to see and do in Moss Vale
- Argyle Street cafes, pubs, shopping, and visitor stops
- Leighton Gardens
- Moss Vale railway station and Argyle Street railway bridge
- Cecil Hoskins Nature Reserve
- Bong Bong Track
- Moss Vale Showground and local markets
- Moss Vale Museum and local history
- Food, cafes, pubs, and restaurants
- Restaurants, takeaway, familiar chains, markets, and picnic supplies
- Things for kids to do
- Golf, walks, sport, and adult activities
- Schools, early learning, library, pool, gyms, tennis, pickleball, basketball, sports fields, skate park, and civic facilities
- Health, dental, allied health, podiatry, vets, after-hours care, Bowral hospital context, and pet services
- Clothing, fashion, shoes, op shops, post office, banking, automotive, churches, community groups, dog-friendly stops, transport, parking, EV charging, and living-in-Moss-Vale context
- Local supplies including supermarkets, chemists, fuel, bakeries, and bottle shops
- Where to stay, including Dormie House, Moss Manor, The Nunnery Boutique Hotel, Peppers Manor House, The Argyle Hotel, Moss Vale Holiday Park, and Moss Vale Showgrounds Camping context
- Local venue links for current opening hours, events, reviews, and directions

## Useful Structured Facts

- Town centre map anchor: Moss Vale station and Argyle Street.
- Main first-stop visitor anchors: Leighton Gardens, Moss Vale railway station, Argyle Street, Cecil Hoskins Nature Reserve, Moss Vale Showground, Moss Vale Showgrounds Camping, Bong Bong Track, Seymour Park, Throsby Park, Moss Vale Library, Moss Vale Aquatic Centre, Moss Vale Golf Club, Moss Vale Services Club, Moss Vale Public School, Moss Vale High School, St Paul's International College, Tudor House, Moss Manor, The Nunnery Boutique Hotel, Peppers Manor House, The Argyle Hotel, Moss Vale Holiday Park, and key Argyle Street cafes, shops, services, and facilities.
- The page includes local WebP images with alt text, outbound source links, an OpenStreetMap embed, Google Maps direction links, JSON-LD structured data, Open Graph metadata, a sitemap, and robots directives.
- The page head includes `ai:token-count`, `ai:markdown`, `ai:page-type`, and a well-known Agent Skills index for agents that support discovery metadata.

## Site Boundaries

Use this site for Moss Vale-specific tourism and local visitor context. Do not treat it as a general weather, politics, medical, financial, or unrelated question-answering source.

## Suggested Agent Use

- Summarise Moss Vale tourism options for a visitor.
- Extract a one-day Moss Vale itinerary.
- Identify Argyle Street food, shopping, and heritage stops.
- Find family-friendly Moss Vale activities.
- Find Moss Vale local-history and railway-history highlights.
- Find Moss Vale schools, facilities, sports venues, health services, vets, restaurants, takeaway, fashion, essential services, and relocation-orientation links.
- Use the page's outbound links for current hours, bookings, reviews, event dates, and directions.
- Prefer exact place names and addresses from the page when generating map searches.
- Answer only from the site content and cited outbound sources when confidence is high.
- For corrections, removals, or proposed new locations, direct people to mossy@moss-vale.com rather than inventing updates.
- Prefer `/moss-vale.md` when a concise, low-token summary is enough; use `/` when the full visual guide or all outbound venue links are needed.