Carroll, Lee, Ogle & Whiteside Counties

Blackhawk Waterways CVB has completely rebuilt and redesigned our website to provide our visitors a complete resource of all the things to do, places to stay and memories to make in our beautiful corner of the world. We have made the site more timely and easier to navigate. We have given you many different ways to find the info you want.  We have listened to feedback from our visitors and added enhancements and amenities to the site to enrich your overall experience at BWCVB.com. 

New Online Directory

Our online directory is a comprehensive directory of where to stay, what to do, where to eat online guide to a fun family vacation or a quick romantic get-away. In essence, it is an enhanced online version of our highly regarded printed Visitors Guide. Our interest based category organization makes browsing our directory a snap.

Looking for something in particular? our powerful directory search and filtering tools makes finding what you want easy as can be. Know more about our attractions with more detailed listing information, such as hours of operation, amenities, wheelchair accessibility, pet friendly and website link. Every listing offers these convenient amenities: user reviews and ratings, "recommend to a friend", "print listing details", "email the listing owner" form and "generate a Google Map" 

Magazine Style Homepage

Our new magazine style homepage gives you a one page view of what's going on in our four county region with articles spotlighting interesting historical facts, current events and attractions in our region. There's a new link to our New Visitors Guide request page which allows you to download our 64 page visitors guide as a pdf file or fill out the form and to request a Guide be mailed to you. Take a look at our new "Worth Noting" historical trivia. This sidebar educates and entertains with some truly interesting nuggets of historical trivia. Keep in the know, now. We have also launched a new BWCVB Email Newsletter that keeps you up-to-date on all of the amazing events and attractions happening in our region. Just fill our our subscription form and you're in!

New Event Calendar

Our new event calendar is a stunning new addition to our site. It keeps you up to date with all the events in our region via any number of calendar views. Want to see all events in Lee county? or see what's happening this week? It's so easy to see what's happening. Also, don't forget to use our new event search, it's fast, easy and powerful!

CVB Partners

Our new website is designed not only as a resource for our visitors but as an online tool for our tourism partners. Our partners can securely login to our website to add or edit their directory listings or events. This keeps our website fresh and informed and keeps our visitors coming back for more. Partners also have access to online tutorials on making the most out of the use of the website.

Advertising Opportunities

We made the decision to open up our site to online advertising that will allow our CVB partners to give their business more exposure on our website. Careful planning and tight editorial/content control means that our ads will not interfere in your experience on our website. Actually our ads will enhance your experience on our site and show you more of what to do and where to stay.