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An interactive waterway map for your own website.

Anyone deciding whether to keep a boat with you wants to know what water they get from your ramp. This draws the real course of every reach around you, on your own page, and it pans and zooms. It is an iframe, so it drops into any page builder that takes embed code.

  • No account
  • No API key
  • Free forever

River map

An interactive map of the rivers and creeks at your location, with the length of every reach. Pan, zoom and share.

Example shown for a live listing.

Match your site
Data
Our river database, sourced from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset and drawn on free OpenStreetMap tiles. No Mapbox, no API key, no metered map loads

Find your boating business and this becomes your snippet, ready to paste.

How it works, and where to paste it →

What it shows

  • Every mapped waterway near your location, drawn as its real course rather than a pin
  • How far each one runs, in miles
  • A link through to each reach, where the live gauge reading lives

Who puts it up

Marinas and ramps on river systems, rental fleets, river cruise and charter operators, and waterfront rentals and lodging.

You do not need a listing with Boating Hubs to use it, and you do not need to claim one. If you have a listing, claiming it is free and lets you fix what visitors see when they click through.

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Where to paste it

Squarespace

Edit the page, add a block, choose Code, and paste the snippet in. Leave the block set to HTML.

Wix

Add → Embed Code → Embed HTML, then paste the snippet into the Code box.

WordPress

Add a Custom HTML block and paste it in. In the classic editor, switch to the Text tab first.

Anywhere else, the rule is the same: it goes wherever your editor accepts raw HTML. Paste the whole snippet, including the plain link, which is the part that keeps working if the script is ever blocked.

Questions

Before you paste

The USGS National Hydrography Dataset, the federal survey of American waterways. It is public domain, so we can draw it and so can you.

No, and it must not be used as one. It shows where the water goes, not how deep it is, where the channel runs or what the hazards are. For navigation you want the official chart.

This one covers inland waterways. For a harbour, bay or sound the marine forecast widget is the right tool, and it gives you the sea state rather than a shape.

It is free, with no account, no API key and no limit on how many people load it. The catch, stated plainly: the snippet includes a visible link back to us, and that link is what the widget costs you. If you would rather not link out, do not use it.

No. It draws on free OpenStreetMap tiles, so there is nothing to sign up for and no metered map loads to pay for.

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One more step

Widget on your site?
Claim the listing it points at.

Claiming is free and takes about two minutes. It lets you fix the photos, hours and details visitors see when they click through from your own website.

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