COE website

Are you using recreation.gov?

Are you using this, https://corpslakes.erdc.dren.mil/visitors/visitors.cfm

I use Recreation.gov
As for what's wrong with any Government website... Sorry Can not tell you .

bukhrn wrote:
Are you using this, https://corpslakes.erdc.dren.mil/visitors/visitors.cfm

usage.army.mil It has info on river levels and forecasts, wether campgrounds are open or closed due to flooding, other info on campgrounds, volunteer opportunities etc. the link you gave me to try even has non-working links in it.

And no........I'm not talking about the reservation site. That is for reservations.

Might want to try www.allstays.com -- it's got good info for all types of CG ... You can search type, or area, or private or government ... and it gives some info and contact. We've been using it for years, and never seen it down. Not once.

Since the OP is not wanting information on campgrounds, but information on lakes such as water levels, facility closures, etc;

I’ve found the individual COE district websites are the best source.

As an example the Fort Worth district web site closure list told me that five sites at East Fork would be inaccessible for two days during daytime hours last week due to road repairs. One couple who had booked one of those sites were quite upset that they had to move their vehicle to the gate or bathhouse before 8 am, and could not drive back to their site until 6:30 pm each day.

That type information MAY be on the COE district web site. It will never be available on recreation.gov. It will also be too late to be posted on review web sites.

The site the OP is talking about is a portal the COE had available for years to reach district or individual lake websites but has become really flakey since early in 2017.

I’ve noticed individual COE district and lake websites have become less informative about activities such as hunts, commercial projects/ leases and have mostly dropped any information on anything that used to be classed as environmental in the past (invasive plants, animals, cleanups, EIS comments and reports)

They are also in general becoming less informative on recreation activities, especially less information on public comment periods for proposed changes to recreational access, such as leasing of COE parks to commercial operators/ companies.

The COE also used to have a central clearinghouse for volunteer opportunities (and contract gate attendants) available on that website. One could submit a single volunteer application and sent it to several different lakes on that site. Now a person has to submit individual six page applications of mostly duplicate material to each individual project through the Volunteer.gov portal.

Every time the Government has shut down due to lack of funding the last few months
the government web sites go down. Also the COE web site has been getting revamped so it goes down then also.

PawPaw_n_Gram wrote:
Since the OP is not wanting information on campgrounds, but information on lakes such as water levels, facility closures, etc;

I’ve found the individual COE district websites are the best source.

As an example the Fort Worth district web site closure list told me that five sites at East Fork would be inaccessible for two days during daytime hours last week due to road repairs. One couple who had booked one of those sites were quite upset that they had to move their vehicle to the gate or bathhouse before 8 am, and could not drive back to their site until 6:30 pm each day.

That type information MAY be on the COE district web site. It will never be available on recreation.gov. It will also be too late to be posted on review web sites.

The site the OP is talking about is a portal the COE had available for years to reach district or individual lake websites but has become really flakey since early in 2017.

I’ve noticed individual COE district and lake websites have become less informative about activities such as hunts, commercial projects/ leases and have mostly dropped any information on anything that used to be classed as environmental in the past (invasive plants, animals, cleanups, EIS comments and reports)

They are also in general becoming less informative on recreation activities, especially less information on public comment periods for proposed changes to recreational access, such as leasing of COE parks to commercial operators/ companies.

The COE also used to have a central clearinghouse for volunteer opportunities (and contract gate attendants) available on that website. One could submit a single volunteer application and sent it to several different lakes on that site. Now a person has to submit individual six page applications of mostly duplicate material to each individual project through the Volunteer.gov portal.

I have always gone to the local district. In this case, Rock Island district. Nothing......
Just Safari can't find the server. Any links from other sites for volunteer opportunities, same thing, river levels, same thing. Even links within volunteer.gov aren't working, at least for the Rock Island district.im not sure if it is specific to this district or not

Mobile district which is where we most often go seems to be OK. http://www.sam.usace.army.mil/

Rock Island District site seems to be working today - but I've also experienced frustration with the conversion of the individual district web sites to all be under the same control / format. There are a lot of broken links in the various sites, and in other agency sites linking to COE sites.