Compounding a portfolio of everyday internet properties.
ColdPress is an operating company building and holding 21 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?
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
AirHistory tracks a decade of air quality data across US cities, showing pollution trends, AQI breakdowns, and whether conditions are improving or worsening over time.
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.
Free Game Directory is a categorized library of free browser games — puzzles, score-attack, trivia, idle, geography — with editorial reviews, play guides, and a curated daily picks list. No signup walls, no downloads.
GoTreePros connects homeowners with licensed local tree-care crews for whole-tree removal, structural trimming, stump grinding, storm-emergency response, and written hazard assessments — across multiple US metros with city-specific permit guides.
HexMerge is a hex-grid 2048 variant. Combine matching tiles on a hexagonal board to chase higher scores, with endless mode, share-friendly final boards, and a daily seeded board for streak players.
HomeProsHQ matches homeowners with vetted local pros across home-improvement categories — HVAC, electrical, plumbing, roofing, tree, and more — searchable by city and service. Sister hub to the city-and-trade lead-gen sites in the portfolio.
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.
LexSweep is a daily 5×5 word grid puzzle. Guess one row at a time — shared letters across columns hint at the rest. Wordle for crossword fans, with archive, strategy guides, and Wordle/Crosswordle/Squardle comparisons.
A first-person men’s-interest essay blog by Tim Adair — practical skills and judgment, reported firsthand.
MapDash is a daily geography game. A country is revealed clue by clue — geography, culture, history, economy — and you race to identify it in as few clues as possible. Daily streak tracking and an archive of past countries.
Minneapolis Heat Pump Pros covers cold-climate heat pump installation across the Twin Cities metro — sizing, rebates, symptom guides, neighborhood-by-neighborhood service, and a vetted installer directory. Permits and inspections handled in-house.
NumGrid is a daily 5-digit number-logic puzzle. Each guess returns digit-match feedback — work backward through digit sums, parity, and primes to identify the day's number. Archive, strategy guides, and Numberle/Mastermind/Bulls-and-Cows comparisons.
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.
Population and demographic profiles for 4,200+ US cities, 3,200 counties, and every state — age, income, race, housing, and density — plus metro, ZIP-code, and school-district breakdowns, all from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
PuzzleDaily is a daily roundup hub for word, number, geography, and logic puzzles — play them all in one place, with strategy guides, archives, and comparisons against the big NYT-class games.
The Cheeseburger Index tracks the cost of making a homemade cheeseburger using BLS retail ingredient prices, an informal economic indicator with regional granularity.
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.
WaterSafety grades every US water system A through F based on EPA violations, contaminant levels, and enforcement history. Check your water quality by zip code.