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.
Lake Pepin bluffs from Frontenac State Park · photo: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0
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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Lock — active in last 2h Lock — active in last 24h Lock — quiet Boat — live on our antenna right now Boat — estimated, projected from a real position Boat — estimated from lock timing only, never heardSolid = confirmed · dashed/hollow = estimate, not a live fix · arrow = heading, only shown when live & moving
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.