Compounding a portfolio of everyday internet properties.
ColdPress is an operating company building and holding 8 everyday-use internet properties — public-data dashboards, daily puzzles, free tools, and local-services networks — for the long term.
Travel & Outdoors network
The portfolio's lead thesis is a cross-niche recreation cluster: take free environmental and public-land data — lake and beach water quality, thermal-spring temperatures, waterfall records, national-park crowd stats, national-forest trails — derive a grade or ranking for every destination, and publish a page for each one. That high-intent trip-planning traffic converts through Stay22 lodging affiliate placements and email capture. The flagship, LakeGrade (lakequality.org), is the template every sibling site clones.
BeachGrade
How clean is the water at my beach, and does it flag swim advisories?
CanIBikeHere
Where can you mountain bike or ride a Class 1 e-bike in the US National Forest System?
ChasingFalls
Where is the best waterfall to visit near me, and when does it run?
HotSpringIndex
How hot is this hot spring, and is it safe to soak in?
LakeGrade
Is your lake healthy?
LakeQuality Europe
ParkCrowdCalendar
When is the least crowded time to visit each US national park?
WakeSurfSpots
Where can you wakesurf, what boat and board should you use, and what are the rules in your state?
Portfolio
A–F Beach Safety Grades for U.S. public beaches, computed from EPA BEACON and Water Quality Portal bacteria monitoring, with advisory history and where to stay.
Per-forest and per-trail mountain-bike and e-bike legality profiles built from the USFS National Forest System Trails dataset — rideable trails, Class 1/2/3 e-bike designations, total mileage, and open seasons across all 110 national forests in 39 states, with a page for every one of 14,192 ridable trails.
Documented heights, locations, access, and best season for 115 named U.S. waterfalls, compiled from USGS GNIS and federal land-manager records.
Every natural hot spring in the USGS/NOAA inventory, classified by water temperature (Cool to Scalding), with safety-first framing and where to stay.
LakeGrade grades every monitored lake in Minnesota and Wisconsin A through F based on water clarity, phosphorus, and algae levels. Compare your lake to its neighbors.
Month-by-month crowd levels, weather, and daylight for 385 National Park System units, distilled into a best-time-to-visit score that surfaces the shoulder-season window for any park. Built from NPS visitor-use statistics and NOAA climate normals.
A structured wakesurf reference: spots by state with real best-season windows from temperature normals, boat and board comparisons, per-state rules, plus a glossary and guides.