This Summer a new Metropark known as Rivergate Park will open on the Cuyahoga River,  down in the industrial flats of Cleveland.   The Cleveland Rowing Foundation with help from the Trust for Public Land acquired 6½ acres of a former marina and is now selling off part of it to the Metroparks. Foundation Director Theresa Gang said rowing clubs are commonly created in public parks but this time "I'm proud to say that this park - Rivergate Park- was created by a rowing club."  

The Cleveland Rowing Foundation has some 950 Rowers but is happy to share the water.

“Whether it’s a fisherman or a rower or a kayaker or someone on a pleasure boat everyone has a right to the water.   And bringing life back to the river will increase the condition and the quality of the river because people will connect with the river. “

Rivergate Park will provide the only public access the river for people with rowing shells or canoes or kayaks.   Metroparks architect John Cardwell says it’s only a couple acres but has a building and a dock already and will have a skate park

The boardwalk and a “water trail” would extend one mile north to Wendy Park on Whiskey Island and Lake Erie.   Rivergate Park is set to open In August first.