Take your pick between more than 30 different land and water activities at the Whitewater Center, a 1,300-acre facility about 15 miles west of Uptown Charlotte along the Catawba River. At the ...

and the U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte, NC, as well as a host of similar courses built worldwide for Olympic competitions from London and Sydney to China and Brazil. “These parks ...

THIS OCTOBER, AN EVENT THEY HOPE WILL PROVE THE SPORT TO THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE. THAT EVENT IS KIND OF A PRECURSOR OF PUSHING WHITEWATER RAFTING TOWARDS THE OLYMPICS AND SHOWING THE ...

At the Charlotte, N.C., whitewater park, Shipley reinvented the game again, making the park not just for Olympic kayakers but also for rafters, people who could get a taste of whitewater.