About Boat Ramp Guide

Where the Data Comes From

Every ramp in our directory is sourced from official government datasets. We pull, clean, normalize, and cross-reference data from the following agencies:

• • Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FL FWC)
• • Georgia Department of Natural Resources (GA DNR)
• • Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MI DNR)
• • North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NC WRC)
• • South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SC DNR)
• • Maine GeoLibrary
• • Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (CT DEEP)
• • Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (MT FWP)
• • U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) — water level gauge data
• • OpenStreetMap — supplemental location and access data

We're adding new state datasets regularly. If your state isn't covered yet, it's on the list.

What We Show

For each boat ramp, we aim to provide as much practical detail as the source data allows:

Quality Standards

Not everything in a government dataset belongs on the site. We apply a set of filters before publishing any ramp or lake page:

• • A boat ramp must have at least 5 verified data fields (name, location, type, and two or more amenity details) before it gets published.
• • A lake or river page is only created when it has 2 or more published ramps — single-ramp bodies of water are accessible through their state page.
• • GPS coordinates are validated against state boundaries and water body proximity.
• • Duplicate entries from overlapping datasets are merged, not double-counted.

Found an Error?

Government data isn't perfect, and neither are we. If you spot a ramp that's closed, a fee that's changed, or coordinates that drop you in someone's backyard, let us know below and we'll fix it.