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 ...

The new whitewater park in Bend is unprecedented in the Pacific Northwest ... to live the happiest and healthiest lifestyle they can. Oregon’s population has more than doubled in the last ...

Amanda Peacher / OPB Oregon's first whitewater park opened Friday in Bend. A short section of the Deschutes River now splits into three channels: there's a natural wildlife area, an easy channel ...

Key pieces of the Bend Whitewater Park are 90 percent complete ... with most of that going toward meeting an Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife requirement that the district monitor construction ...

One of the best things about visiting Bend is the wealth of outdoors opportunities found nearby, including the slopes of Mt. Bachelor, the rugged wilderness trails and the beautiful Deschutes ...

On a recent afternoon in Bend, kids and adults squealed as their inner tubes bumped down river rapids designed for summer fun. When it’s hot outside, the city’s whitewater park on the ...

Other parks across the West While Bend’s whitewater park is the first to be created in Oregon, communities in Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and Nevada have led the way in river improvements ...

The surfer who died after he was trapped underwater for several minutes at the Bend Whitewater Park on Saturday was 17-year-old Ben Murphy of Bend, according to a family statement posted on social ...

A 17-year-old boy died Saturday, April 30, after becoming trapped in underwater rocks at Bend Whitewater Park, Oregon officials said. The teen had been surfing with friends when he vanished ...