Recreation Engineering and Planning

We are the industry leading in-channel Whitewater Park Team

HISTORY:

Since its founding in 1983, Recreation Engineering and Planning (REP) has become the country’s leader in whitewater and riverside design.  During our twenty years in the business, our elite design staff has been responsible for over 30 in-stream design projects—more than half of all the whitewater parks in America.  Our work varies in size from small projects that are tasked with designing a single play wave for a small town like Steamboat Springs or Gunnison, Colorado; to large projects like the $21 million dollar whitewater park in Charlotte, NC or the habitat restoration near a refinery in Casper, Wyoming.   Our success stems from our unique designs.  REP does not believe in the mass produced whitewater park and does not attempt to copy parks such as Sydney or Barcelona to other environments.  Instead, we believe that the channel should integrate itself with the park that surrounds it and that this park should be designed to meet the needs of a whole community, not just a select group of boaters within it.  We design parks that combine world-class whitewater with natural looking channels.  While our parks use concrete where necessary for structural stability and boater safety, we avoid the artificial look of cement walls. 

Our parks are fashioned primarily from local rock and our designs mesh seamlessly with both the local environment and the park on both sides of the river channel.  These designs include safely designed river access points as well as natural terracing, re-vegetation and riparian zone restoration that allows the community to interact with the river in a natural setting.