RIVER GUIDES

Explore rivers beyond the gauge

Published Get Water Data guides with maps, access points, history, fishing, boating, parks and live monitoring information.

Ohio

Follow the Scioto

History, fishing, boating, landscapes and live water data along one of Ohio’s defining rivers.

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Ohio

Follow the Olentangy

History, fishing, paddling, parks and live water data along one of central Ohio’s most distinctive rivers.

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Ohio

Follow the Cuyahoga

History, fishing, paddling, parks and live water data along Northeast Ohio’s remarkable comeback river.

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Ohio

Follow the Maumee

History, spring fishing, paddling, parks and live water data along northwest Ohio’s great Lake Erie river.

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Ohio

Follow the Muskingum

Historic hand-operated locks, river towns, fishing, boating and live water data from Coshocton to the Ohio River.

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Ohio

Follow the Great Miami

River towns, the legacy of the 1913 flood, fishing, paddling and live water data across western Ohio.

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Ohio

Follow the Sandusky

Scenic-river cliffs, spring fish runs, paddling access and live water data from north-central Ohio to Sandusky Bay.

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Ohio

Follow Alum Creek

A central Ohio creek transformed by a major lake, with fishing, boating, greenways, parks and live water data.

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Colorado · Utah · Arizona · Nevada · California

Explore the Colorado River

Follow the Colorado from its Rocky Mountain headwaters through Utah canyon country, the Grand Canyon and the lower river, with fishing, boating, access and live USGS water data.

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Minnesota · Wisconsin · Iowa · Illinois · Missouri · Kentucky · Tennessee · Arkansas · Mississippi · Louisiana

Explore the Mississippi River

Follow the Mississippi from its headwaters at Lake Itasca through the heart of the United States to the Gulf of Mexico, with live USGS gauges, river maps, history, fishing, boating and public access information.

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Montana · North Dakota · South Dakota · Nebraska · Iowa · Kansas · Missouri

Explore the Missouri River

Follow the Missouri River through Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri, with live USGS gauges, river maps, history, fishing, boating and public access information.

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Illinois · Indiana · Kentucky

Explore the Ohio River

Follow 981 miles of the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to the Mississippi, with live USGS gauges, fishing, boating, history and places to reach the river.

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Kentucky · Tennessee

Explore the Cumberland River

Follow the Cumberland from the Appalachian headwaters and Cumberland Falls through Lake Cumberland, Nashville and the lower river, with fishing, paddling, access and live USGS water data.

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