Webcam links
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Webcams on the Mississippi River and connecting waterways, like this one at Lock and Dam 15, Rock Island IL. |
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Marine-related webcams elsewhere, like this view of the Seine River in Paris. |
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Webcams on board vessels! |
Newest webcams
17th Street Canal
New Orleans
Watch the frantic construction of the floodgates at the mouth of the 17th Street Canal at Lake Pontchartain.
Lamb Landing
Lamb IN, USA
On the Ohio River at mile 545.9
Webcams on the Mississippi River
and connecting waterways
Algiers Point
New Orleans
Updates every 20 seconds. Shows the Canal Street ferry crossing.
Allegheny River
Oil City PA, USA
The Oil City ice cameras watch the confluence of Oil Creek with the Allegheny River, a location known for ice jamming.
Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge LA, USA
A zoomed in view on a stretch of the Mississippi River, from the WAFB broadcast tower.
Bob Hall Pier
Corpus Christi TX, USA
See what the seas are like outside of Aransas Pass.
Chalmette Slip
near New Orleans
The St. Bernard Port Harbor & Terminal District, downriver from Algiers Point.
Charleroi Locks & Dam
Charleroi PA, USA
Four views of the construction site at Charleroi Locks and Dam, which will replace Locks and Dam 4, Monongahela River.
The Courier-Press RiverCam
Evansville IN, USA
Cam located behind the Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, looking out across the Ohio River toward Kentucky.
(requires registration)
Dauphin Island
Dauphin Island AL, USA
A view from US Coast Guard Station Dauphin Island.
Galveston Harbor
Galveston TX, USA
From Harbor House, an inn at Pier 21. Updated every six seconds.
Greenville Bridge
Greenville MS, USA
Watch the construction of the new US Highway 82 cable-stay bridge across the Mississippi River. You can control the camera view. (Quirky in some browsers; you may need to enable pop-up windows.)
Gulf County Shipbuilding
Port St. Joe FL, USA
You might not see the Intracoastal Waterway, but you should see boats etc. under construction.
Iowa Avenue Bridge
Iowa City IA, USA
A view of the Iowa River from the hydraulics laboratory of the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research.
Lock & Dam 15
Rock Island IL, USA
From the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Rock Island District.
Lock & Dam 25
Winfield MO, USA
At mile 241.4 on the Upper Mississippi River, courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Marietta
Marietta OH, USA
A live view of the Ohio River at the Putnam Bridge.
Quad-Cities Online RiverCam & LeveeCam
Moline IL et al, USA
The I-74 twin bridges at Moline IL/Bettendorf IA, plus a view of Davenport IA from Rock Island IL
Panama City Beach
Florida, USA
Pensacola Beach
Florida, USA
Perdido Pass
Gulf Beach AL, USA
Steve's Gulf Beach camera page, with a view west from the Caribe Resort at Perdido Pass, south of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. Click the "go live" button to see a live feed for 60 seconds.
Port of Baton Rouge
Port Allen LA, USA
A view of the I-10 Bridge, from the west bank, with the Baton Rouge cityfront in the background.
Port of New Orleans
New Orleans
Five different webcam views, including the Napoleon Avenue and Nashville Avenue wharves and the Julia Street cruise ship terminal above Algiers Point.
Steubenville
Steubenville OH, USA
A bird's eye view of the Ohio River, from the WTOV broadcast tower.
Marine webcams elsewhere
Åland Islands
Västrahamn, Finland
A view over the harbor in Västrahamn, Mariehamn.
Antwerp harbor
Antwerp, Belgium
A very busy scene at times, with self-propelled barges and other vessels coming and going at the Royers Lock entrance. The view is south from the Hogere Zeevaartschool in Antwerpen (Antwerp Maritime Academy).
Ascension Island
This is one of the most remote webcams on the planet! A view of the pierhead at Georgetown. Ascension Island is in the South Atlantic Ocean; it's an overseas territory of the British Crown.
Bellingham Bay
Bellingham WA, USA
A view from the roof of Bellingham Cold Storage, updated every 30 seconds. You can click a link for a movie of the previous hour. Also - weather data updated every minute.
Boston Inner Harbor
Boston MA, USA
A live view of Boston's Inner Harbor from SeaTow Boston's HarborCam mounted above their dispatch center. Pan-tilt-zoom controllable.
Camino Real Bridge
Boca Raton FL, USA
A drawbridge on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. Surrounded by resorts, condominiums and palm trees. The page has a schedule of bridge openings.
Cape Cod Canal
Buzzards Bay MA, USA
A five-shot panorama, updated every 30 minutes from 0700 to 1600 ET (1900 in the summer).
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
Cape Hatteras NC, USA
Carquinez Strait
Benicia CA, USA
Chetco River Bar
Brookings Harbor OR, USA
This place is touted as the "safest bar on the Oregon coast," but some of the images look pretty rough. Updated every 15 minutes.
Danube River
Budapest, Hungary
Danube Quay
Neuburg an der Donau, Austria
Nice view of a quay along the Danube River.
Duluth Ship Canal
Duluth MN, USA
Courtesy of the Lake Superior Marine Museum Association. Updates once every minute.
Elbe River
Hamburg, Germany
Actually downriver from the port of Hamburg, looking downstream.
Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco, USA
From the roof of George Washington High School, looking NNE.
Golden Gate Bridge 2
San Francisco CA, USA
Panoramic views of San Francisco Bay from the roof of the Exploratorium, looking NW.
Grand Canal
Venice, Italy
Watch for gondolas, but mostly you'll see larger motorized excursion boats.
Hillsborough River
Tampa FL, USA
Shows the east shore of Lowry Park. Updated every 10 seconds from dawn to dusk. Saturday and Sunday are the best times to view boats on Tampa's downtown river.
Hood Canal Bridge
near Seattle WA, USA
This is a really weird floating bridge with a concrete pontoon. I drove across it repeatedly one day just hoping to see it open. On this web site you can view a 750K animated gif showing how the bridge works.
Juneau Harbor
Juneau AK, USA
Includes archived shots of U.S. and Canadian Coast Guard cutters and other vessels.
Ketchikan
Ketchikan AK, USA
From the Dockside Gallery in Ketchikan, in southeast Alaska.
Kiel Canal
Kiel, Germany
The Holtenau Locks at the east end of the Kiel Canal (Nord-Ostsee Kanal). This is a deepwater canal connecting the Baltic Sea to the Elbe River, which flows into the North Sea. They have two webcams at the Holtenau Locks and a third webcam at the Brunsbüttel Lock at the western terminus.
Lake Superior
Duluth MN, USA
A view of the western tip of Lake Superior from the corporate offices of Allete, in Duluth MN. Lake Superior is the earth's largest freshwater lake. The Port of Duluth-Superior is ice-bound every year, usually from early January through late March.
Lamoille River
Hardwick VT, USA
Two black-and-white images of a new low-cost structure to control ice breakup. Updated only during the winter months.
Mackinac Bridge
Mackinaw City MI, USA
This Michigan bridge spans the Straits of Mackinac, from Mackinaw City to St. Ignace.
Nuuk
Nuuk, Greenland
View from the capitol of Greenland.
Panama Canal
Republic of Panama
The Miraflores Locks. Image refreshed every five seconds, so you can actually watch a ship entering the chamber and so on.
Port of Narvik
Narvik, Norway
Two webcams at a seaport north of the Arctic Circle, yet ice-free year
round. Also, it can be dark all day or sunshiny all day, depending.
Portage Canal Lift Bridge
Houghton/Hancock MI, USA
San Francisco FogCam
San Francisco CA, USA
A view from Sausolito, updated about every two minutes. The Bay Bridge is in the background.
Sault RiverCam
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
A 360-degree tour with 16 stops, including the locks. Webcam nerds will appreciate the classy fading in and out of successive images.
Sault Ste. Marie - Soo Locks
Sault Ste. Marie MI, USA
Four separate images updated every 120 seconds. From the USACE Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
Scalloway Harbor
Scalloway, Shetland, UK
On the Shetland Islands, looking to the east from the navigation tower at the North Atlantic Fisheries College.
Seine River
Paris, France
A classic view of les quais de Seine. Watch for those long, low excursion boats. At night their flood lights illuminate the bridges as they pass through. Every once in a while you'll see pushboats and/or self-propelled barges.
Smith's Point
Smithtown NY, USA
A view from Fire Island National Seashore overlooking Smith Point.
Stadersand
Stadersand, Germany
A live cam on the Elbe River, downsteam from Hamburg. Supplied by Captain Uwe von Ahn's tugboat company.
Statue of Liberty
New York, New York!
As seen from the Manhattan offices of Georgeson Shareholder. Lady Liberty just sort of stands there, but the background may change. Sometimes there are container ships, sometimes there are only container cranes.
Stavanger
Stavanger, Norway
The Thames
London, England
A live webcam view of the River Thames showing the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye.
USCGC Haddock
San Diego CA
A cam associated with the US Coast Guard Cutter Haddock, a 27-meter patrol boat stationed in San Diego. The view is of Harbor Island, San Diego Bay and North Island.
Victoria Harbor
Hong Kong
Views of Victoria Harbour, from various angles and at different times of the day.
Willamette River
Portland OR, USA
The KATU riverfront cam shows the Willamette River, downtown Portland and Interstate 5.
ZanziCam
Stone Town, Tanzania
On Zanzibar Island. You should see motorized dhows, ferries and container ships. This is apparently the only live webcam in East Africa.
Webcams on board vessels!
Circle Line
New York NY, USA
An excursion boat in New York, sailing down the Hudson, around the Statue of Liberty, up the East River and under the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges to the United Nations building and back. The connection is via cellular phone.
Linz ferry
Linz, Germany
A car ferry on the Rhein (Rhine) River at Linz, in western Germany. Camera mounted on the bridge, looking down toward the vehicle deck and beyond. Updates every 20 seconds.
Maxim Gorki
A German cruise ship. The image is apparently updated only once daily. The web page shows their latitude and longitude, speed and course or heading as well as meteorological data.
Fjordtroll
Bergen, Norway
A fast ferry operating out of Bergen. Webcam updates every 20 minutes. Be sure to click on "De beste web-kamerabildene" for some beautiful past images -- not all of which are webcam shots from the boat.
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