Explore rivers beyond the gauge
Published Get Water Data guides with maps, access points, history, fishing, boating, parks and live monitoring information.
Follow the Scioto
History, fishing, boating, landscapes and live water data along one of Ohio’s defining rivers.
Open river guide →OhioFollow the Olentangy
History, fishing, paddling, parks and live water data along one of central Ohio’s most distinctive rivers.
Open river guide →OhioFollow the Cuyahoga
History, fishing, paddling, parks and live water data along Northeast Ohio’s remarkable comeback river.
Open river guide →OhioFollow the Maumee
History, spring fishing, paddling, parks and live water data along northwest Ohio’s great Lake Erie river.
Open river guide →OhioFollow the Muskingum
Historic hand-operated locks, river towns, fishing, boating and live water data from Coshocton to the Ohio River.
Open river guide →OhioFollow the Great Miami
River towns, the legacy of the 1913 flood, fishing, paddling and live water data across western Ohio.
Open river guide →OhioFollow the Sandusky
Scenic-river cliffs, spring fish runs, paddling access and live water data from north-central Ohio to Sandusky Bay.
Open river guide →OhioFollow Alum Creek
A central Ohio creek transformed by a major lake, with fishing, boating, greenways, parks and live water data.
Open river guide →Colorado · Utah · Arizona · Nevada · CaliforniaExplore 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.
Open river guide →Minnesota · Wisconsin · Iowa · Illinois · Missouri · Kentucky · Tennessee · Arkansas · Mississippi · LouisianaExplore 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.
Open river guide →Montana · North Dakota · South Dakota · Nebraska · Iowa · Kansas · MissouriExplore 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.
Open river guide →Illinois · Indiana · KentuckyExplore 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.
Open river guide →Kentucky · TennesseeExplore 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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