Mississippi River · Red Wing · Lake Pepin · Alma

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

Live from our own receiver on the Mississippi River at 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
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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.
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Conditions at a glance
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River Pulse

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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.