Recreation Engineering and Planning

We are the industry leading in-channel Whitewater Park Team

Recreation Engineering and Planning has been the trend setter in Whitewater Parks for over 30 years. In that time, Recreation Engineering and Planning has created 90% of all of the in-stream whitewater parks in the United States. These parks include the popular Reno Whitewater Park in downtown Reno, home of the Reno Whitewater Festival, the Vail Whitewater Park, which has hosted the Teva Mountain Games, and the Golden Whitewater Park, which is an example of how dramatic an effect these parks can have on the local economy.

REP's Parks are not just designed for the many kayakers and river enthousiasts who will visit them, they are designed for the communities in which they reside. These parks are community parks with trails, streamside seating, fishing, tubing, and family areas. It is this all-encompassing design that led the Mayor of Reno to call the Reno Whitewater Park the, "Best capital investment project I've seen."

Recreation Engineering and Planning has pioneered several in-stream design and restoration technologies. Among them are low-head-dam re-design projects that allow dangerous and unpassable dams to provide safe passage, recreation, and help to restore the river's natural morphology in a way that allows fish to pass upstream and for a healthy and robust in-stream and riparian zone environment. REP has implemented these types of projects on small narrow low head dams, such as the existing structure at the Reno Whitewater Park and on large dams on wide rivers, such as the Bow River Weir Project in Calgary, Alberta that is more than 700 feet wide and drops more than 12 feet!