Red Wing · Lake Pepin · Alma

Your stretch of the river. Real boats, real locks.

Live from our own receiver on Lake Pepin. Real boats, real lock activity, real positions — not a mockup. St. Paul→Dubuque coverage is coming; this is the stretch that's real today.

Maiden Rock, Lake Pepin

Getting a read on the river…

Where are you watching from?
Need your exact dock? Use my phone location or click the map below.
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.
Replaying…
Lock · active <2h Lock · active <24h Lock · quiet Boat · live now Boat · estimated Boat · lock timing only Heading — real reading when live
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Conditions at a glance

River Pulse

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Lock activity

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River level

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Weather

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Full detail — charts, all locks, forecast →

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.