On his 41st birthday on 2 August, Vance was spotted in the southwestern Ohio area. He was seen canoeing on a river in Ohio, a tributary that Caesar Creek Lake feeds into.

The Secret Service requested that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Louisville, Kentucky, raise the water level of the Little Miami River last weekend to “ensure motorized watercraft and

Vice President JD Vance's security detail from the Secret Service requested that the Army Corps of Engineers change the outflow of a lake into the Little Miami River in Ohio, The Guardian reports. A spokesman for Vance said the Vice President was unaware of the "protective measures" undertaken by the Secret Service.