If you go: The Bend Whitewater Park is located at 166 SW Shevlin Hixon Drive, Bend, Oregon, 97702 and open year-round from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. Visit the website for more information, rules and ...

A recreation engineering team has recommended structural fixes and repairs to prevent hazards and increase use at Bend ...

In Central Oregon’s new River World theme park, pleasant riffles, rolling waves and churning rapids pour on the thrills for watersports enthusiasts. OK, River World isn’t a real thing ...

National Geographic photographer Jody MacDonald discovers that Central Oregon's wild terrain is the ultimate playground, ...

RIVERS -- This year, in its first full summer season, more than 231,000 people floated the Deschutes River through the Bend, Oregon, Whitewater Park passageway channel on inner tubes, kayaks or ...

Jeff Frank owner/operator Tumalo Creek Kayak and Canoe in Bend, Oregon, talks about the Bend Whitewater Park. The Bend Whitewater Park gets heavy use from paddlers even as park and trail ...

Oregon's First Whitewater Park Opens In Bend . By Amanda Peacher (OPB) Sept. 19, 2015 1:04 a.m. A kayaker plays on one of the more advanced waves in Bend's new whitewater park.

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- A week from Saturday, if all goes as planned, Bend Park and Rec’s Whitewater Park will open back up for surfers for the first time since a teen's tragic death this spring ...

Ben Murphy, of Bend, had been surfing Saturday at the “experts” area of Bend Whitewater Park when he apparently got a foot stuck in one of the gates that controls water flow.

This year, in its first full summer season, more than 231,000 people floated the Deschutes River through the Bend, Oregon, Whitewater Park on inner tubes, kayaks or paddleboards. That’s roughly ...

Bridget Evans, left, takes direction from Loot the Deschutes' Lled Smith, right, on how to don a snorkel and mask at the Bend Whitewater Park on Aug. 9, 2023. Emily Cureton Cook / OPB ...