Indiana Snow Plow Tracker and Road Conditions

Q: Where can I see where the plows are in Indiana?

INDOT calls it Plow Locations, and it runs at https://511in.org/.

Q: What do the road condition colours mean in Indiana?

INDOT colours 511IN without publishing a written legend for what each colour means, so Indiana has no vocabulary of its own to print here. Across the country only 33 of 50 states publish one, and between them they use 166 different labels, which is why a legend read in one state is worth nothing in the next.

Q: How do I report a road problem in Indiana?

INDOT takes reports at https://trafficwise.in.gov. The travel information line is 511 or 1-800-261-ROAD (7623).

Trucks and plow cameras

What the state publishes

Live truck positions and plow cameras

511IN

The map

INDOT, Indiana Department of Transportation

None

Written legend

INDOT publishes no key for the colours

Yes

Roadside cameras

on the same map, pointed at the road itself

The answer

Where the plows are in Indiana

Trucks and plow cameras

INDOT publishes plow positions on 511IN together with photographs taken from cameras mounted on the trucks.

A reader can see a truck move and then look at what its driver is looking at, which is the closest thing any state publishes to standing at the roadside.

What the state calls it: Plow Locations
Where it lives: 511IN
By phone: 511 or 1-800-261-ROAD (7623)

Open Plow Locations

The map

What 511IN shows

511IN carries traffic cameras, a phone app called TrafficWise and a phone line at 511 or 1-800-261-ROAD (7623). INDOT describes it this way: "511IN.org contains information about road conditions, closures and width/weight restrictions. The interactive map provides information to motorists drive safely and efficiently."

Conditions on any state map are reported rather than measured. A plow operator or a trooper enters what they saw, and the map carries it until somebody enters something else, so a colour is a description of the road a while ago on the stretch the person was looking at.

A driver in Indiana can open the 511IN map and switch on three plow layers, one for where the trucks are, one for the view from their cameras and one for where they have already been, but INDOT publishes no written winter colour legend.

The map: 511IN
Cameras: Roadside cameras
Phone app: TrafficWise
Phone line: 511 or 1-800-261-ROAD (7623)

511IN, Indiana Department of Transportation

511IN.org contains information about road conditions, closures and width/weight restrictions. The interactive map provides information to motorists drive safely and efficiently.

Travel Information, Indiana Department of Transportation, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

When a road shuts

Who closes a road in Indiana

INDOT publishes closures on its own 511 map, and the separate county travel status map is filled in by the counties themselves and published by the Indiana Department of Homeland Security.

The county status and most recent time it was provided by the county will appear left of the map.

Travel Information, Indiana Department of Transportation, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

A closure is a different thing from a bad condition, and it is the one entry on the map that carries the force of law behind it. Driving past a closure device is an offence in most states and a rescue bill in several. The map is where the closure is published, and the state also takes reports of conditions from the public.

A red and white striped gate padlocked shut across a two lane forest highway with a ROAD CLOSED sign at its centre, photographed at road level along the wet double yellow line — A seasonal gate shut across a state highway, with no snow on the ground yet. Closures like this one go on by the calendar rather than by the storm, and a driver who checks the map in November finds the road already gone. That is the quietest and most useful thing these maps do, and it happens weeks before anybody looks for a plow. “The gates are closed (49097728041)”, Oregon Department of Transportation, CC BY 2.0

Indiana snow plow tracker questions

Does Indiana have a snow plow tracker?

Where can I see where the plows are in Indiana?

What is 511IN?

511IN is Indiana Department of Transportation's own travel information service. 511IN carries traffic cameras, a phone app called TrafficWise and a phone line at 511 or 1-800-261-ROAD (7623). INDOT describes it this way: "511IN.org contains information about road conditions, closures and width/weight restrictions. The interactive map provides information to motorists drive safely and efficiently."

What do the road condition colours mean in Indiana?

Who closes a road in Indiana?

How do I report a road problem in Indiana?

A plow truck seen from behind in heavy snowfall casting a wide plume of snow off the left shoulder of an interstate, with one dark treated lane running away to the right — The same event from behind: the truck throwing its wing load onto the shoulder, and beside it the dark strip of lane it has already been down. That contrast between the wet black lane and the white one is the physical thing a road map is reporting when it changes a segment from snow covered to wet, and it is why the colour on the map can be right and the road can still be slick. “Snowplow on Interstate 5 in Everett, Washington”, SounderBruce, CC BY-SA 4.0

Plow trackers in other states

Indiana studded tire datesWhen studs are legal on Indiana roads, and the penalty when they are not.Mountain pass conditionsThe passes that close, and what each state posts when they do.Studded tire laws by stateThe dates studs are legal, state by state.Lake effect snowWhere the bands set up and what they do to a commute.Plow trackers in every stateWhich states show the trucks, which show only the roads, and what their legends say.

Indiana read September 23, 2026 from Travel Information, Indiana Department of Transportation, linked above. Departments replace these services between seasons and a layer that ran last winter may not run this one, so INDOT’s own page is the one that governs. Conditions shown on it are reported by people and lag the road. Every state is on the snow plow tracker hub.