A ramp is either usable at five in the morning with your trailer, or it is not. Everything we record aims at that question.
What is on the page
How many lanes. The surface — concrete, gravel or a dirt bank. Whether there is a fee and how much. Trailer parking and roughly how many spaces. Dock, cleaning station, restrooms. Whether the site is open around the clock or gated at dusk.
Gate hours are what people forget. A ramp that locks at sunset turns a great evening bite into a night in the parking lot.
Why the coordinates matter
Every ramp sits on the map at its own point, not at the centre of the lake. On a big water that difference is a forty-minute drive around the shore.
We also work out which water a ramp actually serves by matching it against the shoreline, instead of trusting the lake name someone typed into the original form. That step alone moved a lot of ramps to the water they belong to.
Shore access is separate
Not everyone launches a boat. Piers, banks and wade-in points are recorded on their own, because "there is a ramp" and "you can fish from the bank" answer different questions.
Where it comes from
State park and wildlife agencies, plus the federal recreation database. If we cannot point at a source, the ramp does not go on the page.
