Boat ramps with a fishing pier
A pier at the ramp is somewhere to fish while the queue clears — and somewhere to fish at all if the boat stays home.
out of 1,636 ramps that publish the field; 1,397 state there is none
Where the question is answered, 15% of ramps have one. This field is published far less often than a fee or a surface, so treat its absence as absence of information.
One thing worth knowing about the data
Agencies record piers in three incompatible ways: a yes/no, a count of platforms, and a pier type ("Fixed", "None", "Unknown"). We normalise the first two into a plain yes or no, keep a real word where an agency wrote one, and drop "Unknown" entirely rather than turning it into a no. An absence the agency never asserted is not ours to publish.
- A fishing pier and a courtesy dock are different structures and are recorded in different fields. A dock is for holding a boat; standing on it with a rod during a Saturday launch queue is how arguments start.
- Some piers at ramps are accessible-designed, with rails and a lowered section. Where an agency published that, it appears in the accessibility field on the ramp page.
- Piers on tidal water are usable across the range in a way the ramp is not — which makes a pier at a tidal ramp a genuine fallback when the tide is wrong for launching.
Figures on this page are counted from the agency records behind this site each time it is built, and every count states the population it was computed over. See the sources.