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Park Service river alerts on your own website.

Many of the best runs and shorelines are managed by the Park Service, and when it closes an access or warns about the water, the notice goes up on the park’s alerts page. This puts those alerts on your own page for the units around you. Paste one snippet and it refreshes every hour.

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  • No API key
  • Free forever

National park alerts

Current closures and alerts from the National Park Service for the parks around you, refreshed every hour.

Data
The National Park Service alerts feed, synced hourly into our own database
How it works, and where to paste it →

What it shows

  • Current alerts for up to three Park Service units near you, national rivers and lakeshores included
  • Danger and closure alerts first, the ones that change a trip
  • The date each one was last updated by the Park Service
  • A link to the park’s own conditions page for the full detail

Who puts it up

Paddling clubs on Park Service water, outfitters and liveries, and campgrounds near a national river or lakeshore.

You do not need a listing with Paddling Hubs to use it. If you have one, making it yours is free and lets you fix what visitors see when they click through.

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Where to paste it

Squarespace

Edit the page, add a block, choose Code, and paste the snippet in. Leave the block set to HTML.

Wix

Add → Embed Code → Embed HTML, then paste the snippet into the Code box.

WordPress

Add a Custom HTML block and paste it in. In the classic editor, switch to the Text tab first.

Anywhere else, the rule is the same: it goes wherever your editor accepts raw HTML. Paste the whole snippet, including the plain link, which is the part that keeps working if the script is ever blocked.

Questions

Before you paste

Only if the Park Service posts a water alert. The level itself comes from the gauge, and the river gauge widget is the one that shows it.

No. The Park Service publishes alerts, not an open or closed status, so a quiet card means nothing has been posted, not that every access is open.

It is free, with no account, no API key and no limit on how many people load it. The catch, stated plainly: the snippet includes a visible link back to us, and that link is what the widget costs you. If you would rather not link out, do not use it.

No on both. The script is about 14KB, loads asynchronously so it never blocks your page, and pulls no fonts, frameworks or tracking. It draws inside a shadow root, which is a sealed boundary: your CSS cannot reach in and its CSS cannot leak out.

No. It sets no cookies, stores nothing on the device and sends us no identifiers. It asks for one location’s data and renders the answer.

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One more step

Widget on your site?
Make the listing it points at yours.

Getting listed is free and takes about two minutes. It lets you fix the photos, hours and details visitors see when they click through from your own website.

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