About FL Boat Ramps and the data

FL Boat Ramps lists every public boat ramp in Florida from the official Florida Boat Ramp Inventory published by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission – Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWC-FWRI). Each ramp has its own page with fees, lanes, hours, trailer parking, restrooms, accessibility, water body, a map and the nearest open ramps.

Data source and credit

Source: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission – Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWC-FWRI), Florida Boat Ramp Inventory. FWC data pulled on October 20, 2026.

Data development was funded by a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Sport Fish Restoration grant to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The original inventory was compiled by the Urban Harbors Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston (2009).

• Original data and metadata (ArcGIS Online item)
• FWC ArcGIS map service layer
• FWC Boat Ramp Finder

Disclaimer

• Source: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission – Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWC-FWRI), Florida Boat Ramp Inventory.
• FWC-FWRI is not liable for any use of these data. The data are not legal documents and are not a survey data set.
• These data are not to be used for navigation.
• This site reorganises the FWC data: county names are standardised, hours are grouped, and ramps outside Florida are left out. The original records and metadata are at the FWC links below.
• FL Boat Ramps is an independent site. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by FWC or any managing agency. Always confirm fees, hours and status with the agency before you go.

These data are not to be used for navigation. Navigate buttons open your maps app for driving directions to the ramp only.

How the pages are built

The FWC pull holds 2,628 records. 24 are outside Florida (Georgia and Alabama border ramps) and are left out, leaving 2,604 Florida ramps, 2,408 of them open. Every number and sentence on the site comes from those records; nothing is written by AI, and if FWC leaves a value out, the page says "Not listed by FWC" instead of guessing.

Ramp pages ask search engines to index them only when the ramp is open and FWC lists its lanes, trailer parking, restrooms and hours (1,274 ramps today). Other ramp pages stay available to visitors. Closed, destroyed and unclear-status ramps are labelled as such and left out of open counts and "nearest" lists.

We do not show FWC's record "last edited" date: it is the same for every record, so it says nothing about when a ramp was last checked. The date above is when this site pulled the data.

Maps

Maps use Leaflet (BSD-2-Clause, served from this site) and map images from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors). Map images are not saved for offline use.

ZIP code search

ZIP code search uses the U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) Gazetteer (public domain), bundled with this site: 1,013 Florida ZIP code areas. Distances are measured in a straight line from the centre point the Census Bureau gives each ZIP code area, not from a street address. ZIP code areas approximate USPS ZIP codes; post-office-box-only ZIP codes have no area and are not included. Source file: 2024 ZCTA Gazetteer.

Found an error?

The data belongs to FWC and the managing agencies. Please check with the agency listed on the ramp page; FWC also runs the Boat Ramp Finder.