Your stretch of the river. Real boats, real locks.
Live from our own receiver on Lake Pepin. Real vessels, real lock activity, real positions — not a mockup. St. Paul→Dubuque coverage is coming; this is the stretch that's real today.
Your spot on the riveror click the map to drop a pin
Set your spot to see what's near you — right now, and what's coming from upstream and downstream.
For information only — not for navigation. Positions and arrival estimates are approximate and can be wrong; barge behavior and lock times change without warning. Always keep a safe, deliberate distance from commercial tows, no matter what this page shows.
Lock — active in last 2h Lock — active in last 24h Lock — quiet Vessel — heard within 2h Vessel — heard today Vessel — last known, olderFaded icons = older signal · arrow = heading, only shown when fresh & moving
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Built for the water, not a nerd's dashboard
Lock wait forecasts. Barge ETAs. Whether the river's busy today. Real data from a receiver we run ourselves on Lake Pepin — not a guess, not borrowed from someone else's feed. A second receiver going in at Red Wing soon doubles our coverage of the lake. St. Paul→Dubuque comes later; the map above is real, right now, for the stretch that matters most.