States with the most public boat ramps
Minnesota and Wisconsin top the list. That is partly lakes and partly bookkeeping.
across 52 states and territories and 2,371 counties, from 29 agency sources
| State | Ramps |
|---|---|
| Minnesota | 3,178 |
| Wisconsin | 3,171 |
| Florida | 2,661 |
| Michigan | 1,741 |
| Georgia | 973 |
| South Carolina | 911 |
| Arkansas | 899 |
| New Hampshire | 881 |
| Virginia | 876 |
| Iowa | 777 |
| Washington | 755 |
| Tennessee | 731 |
| Nebraska | 696 |
| Missouri | 608 |
| Idaho | 560 |
| Texas | 552 |
| Ohio | 549 |
| Louisiana | 535 |
| Illinois | 473 |
| North Carolina | 453 |
Read this ranking carefully
A state near the top has both a lot of water access and a natural-resources department that publishes a complete, well-maintained inventory. A state lower down may have either less water or a thinner published record. Texas is the clearest example: the state wildlife department publishes no ramp inventory we could use, so its coverage here comes from a federal layer instead and is certainly incomplete.
We would rather show a state as thin than fill it in. Every count on this page is a count of records that name a real place and carry a link back to the agency row they came from.
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.